| Kinmount House | |
|---|---|
 Kinmount House | |
| Location | Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 55°00′19″N3°20′45″W / 55.00537°N 3.345743°W /55.00537; -3.345743 |
Listed Building – Category A | |
| Official name | Kinmount House |
| Designated | 3 August 1971 |
| Reference no. | LB3582 |
| Designated | 1 July 1987 |
| Reference no. | GDL00244 |
  Shown within Dumfries and Galloway | |
Kinmount House is a 19th-century country house in the parish ofCummertrees in the historic county ofDumfriesshire inDumfries and Galloway region,Scotland. It is located3+1⁄2 miles (5.6 km) west ofAnnan. The house was designed bySir Robert Smirke for the6th Marquess of Queensberry and completed in 1820. It is protected as a category Alisted building,[1] and the grounds are included on theInventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland.[2]
The lands of Kinmount were granted to the Carlyle family in the 13th century and acquired by William Douglas, 1st Earl of Queensberry, in 1633.The 4th Duke of Queensberry carried out extensive planting on the estate in the late 18th century. On his death in 1810, Kinmount passed to the6th Marquess of Queensberry, who commissioned a new house from the English architectSir Robert Smirke.[2] TheGreek Revival house was built between 1813 and 1820, with Smirke's assistantWilliam Burn acting as executant architect. The masonry was carved by John Park using stone brought from Cove quarry nearKirkpatrick-Fleming.[1]
In 1896,The 9th Marquess of Queensberry sold Kinmount to Edward Brook, a wealthy English industrialist who had bought the adjacentHoddom Castle estate in the 1870s.[2] Brook commissioned alterations and extensions to the house from Dumfries architectsJames Barbour and J. M. Bowie. These included the roof balustrades and urns and the service court to the northwest.[1] The house found use as KinmountAuxiliary Hospital during both the First and Second World Wars. In 1983 the house and 13 acres (5.3 ha) of its ground were bought byIvo Pogorelić.[2] Between 1988 and 1998 the house was owned bySteve Ovett.[3]
The house was owned by Kinmount Leisure Ltd, which rents out holiday accommodation with access to outdoor sports. The Kinmount and Hoddom estates are owned by the Brook family trust.[2] The Brook family has begun a restoration of Kinmount and now offers wedding, and leisure accommodations.
The Queensberry family burial ground is within the bounds of Kinmount House on Gooley Hill.[4] The burial ground contains several sculptured monuments from the late-19th and early-20th centuries, a tallCeltic cross, and is surrounded by a circular iron fence.[5]