page_title: Lands of Dallars
section_title: The Laird's House, Farm and the Estate
hierarchical_section_title: Lands of Dallars / History / The Laird's House, Farm and the Estate
caption_attribution_description: English: Neidpath Castle Wikidata has entry Q17571975 with data related to this building. This is a photo of listed building number 13857.
context_page_description: The Lands of Dallars or Auchenskeith form a small estate in East Ayrshire, Hurlford, Kilmarnock, Parish of Riccarton, Scotland. The present mansion house is mainly late 18th-century, located within a bend of the Cessnock Water on the site of older building/s. "Dullers or Dillers" was changed to "Auchenskeith" or "Auchinskeigh" as well as other variants and then the name reverted back nearer to the original form as "Dollars" and then finally "Dallars". Dallars lies 3.25km south of Hurlford.
  For consistency the spellings 'Cuningham'; Dallars; Auchenskeith are used unless otherwise denoted.
context_section_description: Built on a low hill, the site gave a clear view of the surrounding area and originally would have been a fortified building such as a tower house. The later mansion house is a Category B Listed Building. The date of the completion of the mansion house, 1779, is carved onto a gable skew of a garden shed at the walled garden. The mansion house is three storeys high; the porch may be a later addition. The flanking wings are a Victorian addition. The estate buildings included stables, part of which date from around 1635; Mains Farm; a dovecot and a walled garden of brick enhanced by rusticated, finial ball topped, stone piers.
  The designed landscape of the estate policies has evolved during the 18th and 19th centuries, with an original plan of tree-lined parks developing into a less formal landscape.
  The estate's name was changed to 'Auchenskeith' following its purchase by the owner of the Auchenskeith estate near Dalry in North Ayrshire.
  The 1855-57 OS Name Book gives most of the 1764 sasine properties now being held by a Colonel Cathcart and Dallars Mains farm is as well with a William Cunningham as occupier.
caption: Neidpath, a typical Scottish tower castle.
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