Auchinleck House, Ayrshire

Auchinleck House was built between 1755 and 1762 by Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck, and may have been designed by John Adam. The pavilions were added later in around 1773.

James Boswell inherited Auchinleck in 1782 and it was occupied by branches of the Boswell family until about 1970. In 1986 the house was sold to the Scottish Historic Buildings Trust, but by then the lead had been stripped from the roof, all the windows had been smashed and dry rot was rampant throughout the structure.

Simpson & Brown carried out a phase of emergency works in the 1980s to deal with the dry rot. The roof was repaired to stop further water penetration and the building was allowed to dry out naturally. Unsafe timber was replaced and all sound panelling was dismantled and retained for later refixing. The windows and the stone work were repaired.