page_title: Geilsland House
section_title: Geilsland House and grounds
hierarchical_section_title: Geilsland House / History / Geilsland House and grounds
caption_attribution_description: English: Ornamental stained glass window at Geilsland House, Beith, North Ayrshire, Scotland. A Church of Scotland special school.
context_page_description: Geilsland House lies in between the village of Gateside and the town of Beith in North Ayrshire, Scotland. After serving as a private house it became a school and most recently has passed into the ownership of the Beith Development Community Trust.
context_section_description: Geilsland was sold in four lots and in 1867 two of these lots were purchased by Wiliam Fulton Love, writer and bank agent in Beith. He built a handsome villa and gatehouse, in the domestic Gothic style, and enclosed and planted  5 acres (20,000 m²) around the villa. The Millport Chapel, situated within the grounds, was fitted out with items from an old church that once stood on the Isle of Cumbrae.
  Geilsland House may have been designed by Robert Samson Ingram (1841-1915) of J & R S Ingram, Kilmarnock. A pair of late 19th-century Gothic semi-villas at 28 and 30 Portland Road, Kilmarnock are believed to be by Ingram and clearly possess architectural details comparable with Geilsland, in particular the entrance porch with its columned supports.
  The McCombe family were the last owners before it became a Church of Scotland school and being involved in the fruit trade they built greenhouses, a walled garden, and fruit packing sheds. A Summer House existed in the grounds at this time, extensively used by Mr McCombe who suffered from ill health.
  In 1963 the property came to 13 196/1000 Acres of grounds.
  Lomond House within the grounds was built in a mock Gothic style in 1999 as a unit for young people with special needs.
caption: Stained glass in Geilsland House.
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