What is recorded here

Lochinch Heritage Estate, Castle Kennedy, Bowling Pavilion is a post Medieval bowling green and 20th Century sports pavilion in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The estate still gives the game its shape: a flat green, a visible pavilion, and enough room for people to move the ball with their own hands. That much is clear. What is missing is the sound it made when last played, the name of the last person who stood at the pavilion door, and whether the estate still keeps the green cut for the game or has let it return to ordinary grass.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Lochinch Heritage Estate, Castle Kennedy, Bowling Pavilion as Bowling Green (post Medieval), Sports Pavilion (20th 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.

Lochinch Heritage Estate, including Castle Kennedy and the Bowling Pavilion, was developed by the Kennedy family, who held the estate from the 17th century onwards. The site is historically significant as a well-preserved example of a Scottish landed estate with associated leisure facilities reflecting social life in the 18th to 20th centuries.

The historic-place record does not grant public access. Check current conditions and ownership before entering land or a building.