Nature agency needs community-minded buyer to save Kinloch Castle, on Rum in the Inner Hebrides
With red sandstone battlements, a sprung-floor ballroom, and a prized orchestrion organ said to have been made for Queen Victoria, Kinloch Castle on the Inner Hebridean island of Rum was one of the most luxurious private residences of its time upon completion in 1900.
More than a century later, with collapsing chimneys and extensive rot, a “beneficial owner” is now sought for the category A listed building and its extensive grounds – which included a Japanese garden and glasshouses filled with hummingbirds and, briefly, small alligators – following several stalled restoration attempts.
