Dalquharran Castle

[@lauradesmarais2044]

Thank you for showing this to us! Amazing!

[@Kodakcompactdisc]

Twas a fine castle to be sure 👍🏽

[@Sennmut]

You can feel the sadness of this building. It needs to be restored.

[@madamemarmot]

Even in its ruined condition, the building is beautiful and stately. It definitely has good bones, as they say. It would be so gorgeous if someone with deep pockets could be found to take it on. What a treasure.

[@ladyintheskyuk]

Fantastic video with fantastic footage. Great place to fly. Nicely captured 👌 👍

[@grahamdawsonBeith]

Thanks

[@pkraatz36]

Beautiful video. In Canada we don't have this old a history and it always makes me sad to see these grand old ladies be left to ruin. The fact it was designed by Robert Adam makes it important and should be saved however I also understand the cost involved. Thank you for documenting these wonderful castles and houses before they're lost to time

[@musicallyyoshimi9651]

I always find it terribly sad that lovely buildings like this are left to decay.

[@odettehokemeir4425]

So sad it has fallen in such disrepair. Great video!

[@grahamdawsonBeith]

Yes it is sad as it remains an interesting building, thanks for your comment.

[@niklar55]

It seems incredible how rapidly a functional building can deteriorate into a total ruin! .

[@joshbartsch95]

Really cool to see the castle from a different perspective. That's me and my friend waving at you before we were chatting in the courtyard. Hope your drone makes a speedy recovery!

[@grahamdawsonBeith]

Glad you enjoyed it. Hope to take a trip to the other castle soon. Drone beyond superglue and heading to the DJI 'hospital' in the Netherlands!

[@ZipoDoug]

Any pics from the glory days?

[@mrblue4233]

Great video i need to explore this place

[@ScottGrow117]

It would be cool to have enough money yo buy and renovate it.

[@christophera556]

It's probably beyond renovation by now as for the A grade heritage listing is rather a waste of time because it ain't safe for tourists to visit hell there is even a fence around what's left of this building. There is only one thing to be done with this old building or what's left of it bring in a demolition team and get rid of it permanently maybe the land can be used for other purposes maybe not ,the thing is governments need to change their heritage laws big time make such more flexible so that old heritage buildings still in one piece people of wealth and means might consider buying them and fixing them up the other thing that needs to be considered is which heritage things that should be kept and which should be dumped if a heritage building or any other heritage listed property has tourist potential then keep it and develop it thereby turning a heritage property into a tourist trap which would bring in the money for up keep and development as for this old run down castle as I said at the start of this comment is long gone and beyond saving so it's time for the demolition team to end this building once and for all.

[@johnjamieson4968]

The wings either side were added on in the early 1880s francis and his wife Eliza had 9 children some of them are buried in the family cemetery on the Estate but the mansion House and fishing hunting ect was rented out I think the building proved far to big on the up keep even for the kennedys the last kennedy resident and his wife are also buried on the estate

[@grahamdawsonBeith]

Thanks for the additional information.

[@Edison73100]

Drones are so cool.

[@AlessandroAlvesDória]

Tinha como restaurar

[@bigboy77dk]

It seems, there are so many of these fallen giants... And I keep thinking of all the people, who passed through those doors, and lived there. It really is a shame, that buildings, like this are just left to rot. I can't believe, that they actually removed the roof?? 🙄

[@annewren8845]

I thought exactly the same, why on earth remove the roof, when the building could have been repurposed ?? 🤷‍♀️

[@alexanderguesthistorical7842]

As a Cabinet Maker myself I know only too well the importance of an architect such as Robert Adam. That place has truly national significance (if not international!) IMHO. Seeing it rot is heart-breaking. But from a financial point of view totally understandable. Wouldn't Trump be interested??? After all, he's got the golf course down the road at Turnberry.

[@carlasofiagarcia5733]

Ola poderia colocar a tradução no video ?? Obrigada que bela vista a estrutura está de pé a aguentar se nao deveria ser nada feio o interior

[@grahamdawsonBeith]

Hi, I have put the narration in the description, perhaps you could use Google translate to translate into your own language. (Olá, coloquei a narração na descrição, talvez você possa usar o Google Tradutor para traduzir para o seu próprio idioma.)

[@carlasofiagarcia5733]

@@grahamdawsonBeith obrigada

[@jdhinckley1954]

Nothing lasts forever.

[@jozef4494]

The form is ne-Gothic, but the strictly symmetrical structure and the ground plan is neo-Classical.

[@robnewman6101]

It looks a bit sorry for itself.

[@claudeross126]

Someone needs to buy it and restore it

[@evelynbyrd4961]

This sad beauty, is parallel to the World. No one wants to rescue 💔 😔 😪. Only new bldgs...e

[@barryjacobs8524]

Too expensive to restore now. Let it go.😮

[@pinkelephants1421]

Pretty expensive to restore but it does have one advantage in that there are no floors, ceilings or roof that would need conservation and or restoration. This makes the restoration of of this old girl a much more straightforward proposition assuming the stone fabric of the buildings are as sound as they 1st appear. As for running costs, modern eco technologies such as heat pumps, infrared heating, ground source heating, solar, wind and batteries take most of the pain out the energy supply equation which is most likely why it was abandoned in the 1st place as is so common with many such country piles. Depending on what Scottish Herritage's attitudes are to insulation, particularly buildings with an A grade listing, there are some very good products that would help maintain the historic profiles whilst providing a fairly high R rate insulation performance.

[@mccabesmemorials]

Hughmongous

[@abeonthehill166]

How about we all put in £100 into collectively owning this As an Elite Hotel where we can have exciting “ weekend get togethers 😉“ and only members can attend ! Surly we can do better than this !

[@valle3452]

Such a waste. Once money runs out, there's hardly any hope for these old giants.

[@deborahjaneapperley1004]

Because Scotland had many castles heavily fortified the Romans couldn’t invade, so they gave up and went home.