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Ascog Hall, with it's award-winning Victorian fernery and enchanting garden, can be found on the beautiful island of Bute in the Clyde estuary - only a virtual stone's throw from Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Ascog Hall was built in 1844 by the Rev. James Monteith of Dalkeith who moved to Bute at the time of the Disruptions, when he joined the Free Church. In 1856 the estate was acquired by Robertson Buchanan Stewart, and subsequently by his son, Alexander Bannatyne Stewart, one of Glasgow's merchant princes, whose family claimed descent from two of the oldest proprietors on the island of Bute - the Stewarts of Ascog and the Bannatyne's of Kames. Mr. Stewart built the fernery and also the now ruined coach house and stables.
After he died in 1880, Ascog Hall changed hands frequently and at one period in its history, in the years preceding world war two, it became a hotel. It was abandoned just prior to the war and lay empty for several years. It was during this period that it was extensively vandalised and was used by the army for various training exercises.
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