Kinross House Garden

A late-seventeenth century house, by Sir William Bruce, with a walled garden. JC Loudon was here in 1842 and remarked that 'The whole place has been unoccupied for nearly half a century; but the walls being substantial, it might be restored at a moderet expense, and be one of the finest things of the kind in Scotland'. The house and garden were restored in the early twentieth century and the walled garden is now laid out in an Arts and Crafts manner. The central axis centres on the island in Loch Leven where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisioned. The loch used to be part of the estate. Loudon complained that recent tree planting would obscure views of the castle but expected that 'the proprietor, when he comes of age, will, we trust, have sufficient taste to restore the island to the state it was in a few years ago'. Today, the castle is seen with a backdrop of trees.