Dalswinton House, Dumfrieshire 1930
Dalswinton House, Dumfrieshire 1930
Dalswinton House, 1 mile SSE, and within mile of the Nith's right bank, is an elegant and commodious mansion, erected by Mr Patrick Millar (1731-1815), Burns's landlord, on the site of an ancient castle of the Comyns. This self-made genius launched on an isleted loch, one of the earliest steamboats, with the most perfect success, 14 Oct. 1788. 'He spent,' says Carlyle, 'his life and his estate in that adventure, and is not now to be heard of in those parts, having had to sell Dalswinton and die quasi-bankrupt, and, I should think, broken-hearted '. The estate, which was held formerly by Comyns, Stewarts, and Maxwells, is now the property of William Macalpine-Leny, Esq. (b. 1839; sue. 1867). - Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical and historical.
Dalswinton House, designed by Alexander Nasmyth, is a three-storey, classical mansion house, built of red ashlar in 1785. Additions were made in 1920 and it is a B listed building.