Kerelaw House

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Kerelaw House was part of the former Kerelaw Estate situated on the west coast of Ayrshire, Scotland near the town of Stevenston.

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The house was built in 1787 by Alexander Hamilton (a relative of the American statesman of the same name) and sold to Gavin Fullarton in 1938, along with the rest of the Kerelaw Estate including Kerelaw Castle. In 1919 the house was bought by James Campbell WS. Campbell and his family (including son Kenneth Campbell VC) were the last family to live at Kerelaw, and in 1969 the house was bought by Glasgow Corporation Education Department and Kerelaw Residential School was opened in its grounds in 1970. The house was intended to be used as offices for the school, but was instead mysteriously demolished.

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Built in the Adam style, Kerelaw House was a tall, three storey plain building with a pillared porch and large bay window overlooking the porch on the second storey. A long driveway lead up to the house from the nearby road, and is still used today as an entrance to the school built on the grounds. There is however no other trace of the house.

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I remember Kerelaw House very well as a child of thirteen years a group of us from Mossbank Approved School from Millerstone Glasgow E3 went there on a summer camp in 1964/65 It had a large entrance hall with a huge open fireplace on the right as you went through the main doors. It was as stated a three floor building with a large porch but I remember it having a Ballastrade that went most the way round the Roof and had Large grounds and even then was in some state.