Dunskey Estate (''also known as Portree Estate'') is north of
Portpatrick
Portpatrick is a village and civil parish in the historical county of Wigtownshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is located on the west coast of the Rhins of Galloway. The parish is about in length and in breadth, covering .
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on the west coast of Scotland. The B-listed mansion dates from the start of the twentieth century and replaced an earlier early-eighteenth century house.
Since 2017 it has been used as a tourist, wedding and film venue. Prior to the early 1700s
Dunskey Castle
Dunskey Castle is a ruined, 12th-century tower house or castle, located south of the village of Portpatrick, Rhinns, Wigtownshire, on the south-west coast of Scotland.
Dunskey Castle is a scheduled monument, a 'nationally important' archaeolog ...
was the main building on the estate; it is now a ruined building and scheduled monument with no public access.
The estate was the property of the
Hunter-Blair family, later of
Blairquhan in Ayrshire, and was acquired when Jane (or Jean) Blair of Dunskey, wife of James Hunter, succeeded her brother to Dunskey estates in 1777. A house dating from 1706 was extended in the 1830s.
The Rev James Blair acquired the estate in 1648.
Dunskey Estate has been in the
Orr Ewing family since 1900.
The house was built 1901-04 for
Charles Lindsay Orr-Ewing
Charles Lindsay Orr-Ewing (8 September 1860 – 24 December 1903) was a Scottish Tory
A Tory () is a person who holds a political philosophy known as Toryism, based on a British version of traditionalism and conservatism, which upholds the s ...
MP and his wife Lady Augusta Helen Elizabeth Boyle (daughter of
David Boyle 7th Earl of Glasgow) to a design by James Kennedy Hunter.
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Buildings and structures in Scotland
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