KINLOCH CASTLE, ISLE OF RUM, WEST COAST OF SCOTLAND

Kinloch Castle on the Island of Rum is Category A listed. It is an exceptionally rare, complete and evocative survival. The finest rooms in the Castle look across to the mountains of Skye and the Western Highlands. It was built by the Lancastrian industrialist, George Bullough, in 1897. After his marriage in 1903 to Monique Lilly de la Pasture, the castle was supplied with the very finest furniture and textiles, from the fashionable firms of Shoolbred and Waring's.

The Island of Rum is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a National Nature Reserve.The survival of the Castle and its collection as an entity is due to its purchase by the Nature Conservancy, with the Island, from the Bullough Trustees in 1957. In 2004 Scottish Natural Heritage (the successor government agency to the Nature Conservancy) asked The Prince's Regeneration Trust to lead a project for the repair, conservation and sustainable use of the Castle as a means of contributing to the long term sustainability of the island and its community. The preferred scheme will include the repair and conservation of the Principal wing of the Castle and its contents that will be open to the public, the creation of six apartments in the rear wing together with a new 42-bed Educational and Residential Activity Centre.