What is recorded here
Kames Castle still keeps a gardener's cottage separate from the main house, proving the grounds needed dedicated care before modern estates invented the role. The small building suggests one person tended soil, seed and season while others watched from distance. That separation turns a castle into a living system rather than a dead monument.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Bute, Kames Castle, Gardener's Cottage as Gardeners Lodge (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
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Places near here
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Bute, AcholterFarmstead (period Unassigned), Horse Engine Platform(s) (19th Century) · 828 yd
Bute, St Colmac's ChurchBurial Ground (post Medieval), Church (19th Century) (1835) · 973 yd
Co-worker: Port Bannatyne QuayMotor Fishing Vessel (20th Century) · 1124 yd
Kames BayBay · 1346 yd
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Photo: Raibeart MacAoidh · CC BY-SA 2.0