Ardvorlich House

Ardvorlich House bears little resemblance to a castle today, and indeed much of it is late 18th century or later. However there are suggestions of earlier phases of construction here, which may represent a lairds house of perhaps the 17th century. The house is privately occupied, and so not accessible to the public.

Anciently part of the earldom of Strathearn, Ardvorlich remained an unimportant part of the earldom until it was granted to Alexander Stewart in 1580, the grandson of the royal baillie of Balquhidder. The Stewarts of Ardvorlich suffered damage to their estates in the Covenanting period, here is no indication of a house of any great standing here until the 18th century, when Roy shows a significant building, but the majority of the present building was built under the instruction of Robert Ferguson for the Stewarts in 1790. The gardens are sometimes open to the public, but otherwise Ardvorlich remains a private residence of the Stewarts.