What is recorded here

Kames Castle keeps a glass-walled garden where heat and humidity still build around living things. The structure belongs to the 19th Century and stands in Argyll and Bute. It is the kind of place where people may have tended rare plants, watched rain strike the panes, or simply sat inside the warmth while the land stayed cold.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Bute, Kames Castle, Walled Garden, Greenhouse as Glasshouse (19th Century). 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.

Kames Castle, including its walled garden and greenhouse, was built in the 19th century, likely by the influential Kennedy family, who were prominent landowners on the Isle of Bute. The site is remembered for its historical association with the Kennedys and as an example of 19th-century Scottish castle architecture and horticultural design.

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