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Keir House
Keir House is a large country house near Stirling in central Scotland. It is located in the parish of Lecropt, north-west of Bridge of Allan, in the former county of Perthshire. The estate was home to the Stirling family from the 15th to the 20th century. Keir House is protected as a category A listed building,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Keir House: Listed Building Report )〕 and the grounds are included on the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland, the national listing of significant gardens.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Keir )〕
==History==
The Keir estate was acquired by the Stirling family in 1448, and a house was built on it in the 16th century. The Stirlings supported the Jacobites during the 18th-century rebellions, and the estate was forfeited. However, they continued to live at Keir, and built the present house in around 1760. Income from the family's estates in Jamaica funded agricultural improvements and landscaping of the grounds.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Keir: Site History )〕
Additions were made to the house, including the south-west wing to designs by David Hamilton, completed in 1831.〔 In 1847 Sir William Stirling Maxwell inherited the estate, and began a remodelling of the house and grounds. Architects Alfred Jenoure and William Stirling II worked on the house, while formal gardens were laid out by James Niven.〔 A chapel was added in 1912, designed by Rowand Anderson and Paul, and with interior mosaic decoration by Boris Anrep.〔 Sir William's grandson David Stirling, founder of the Special Air Service, was born at Keir in 1915.
In 1975 the house, together with , was sold by the Stirling family for £2 million to Mahdi Al Tajir, a businessman from the United Arab Emirates.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Keir House )〕
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