Orchardton House

The 1761 house had been started by Sir Robert Maxwell, 7th Baronet of Orchardton, who married a MacLellan of MacLellan's Castle and used the roof timbers and stone from nearby Orchardton Tower to build a new house in a better location near the sea. However the work bankrupted him and in 1786 the estate came under the ownership of James Douglas, a Liverpool merchant, and eventually passed down into the hands of William Douglas Robinson-Douglas in 1878. The new owner had the small mansion removed and built the current structure in the Scottish Baronial style between 1878 and 1883. In 1944 it became a military hospital for wounded officers and into a hotel after the war. The property was…

A report in 2020 about the intended sale of the property, provided this information: "45-rooms, a cinema, library ... 20 bedrooms with more than 30 fireplaces spread out over four floors, and contains three full self-contained flats". There are also "three grand staircases, and one of them includes an original central lift". The grounds comprise five acres with "botanic gardens and woodland, a large pond and paddock, a stable block [and] a private beach".