Old Travel Blog Photograph Baronald House Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Baronald House, on the northern edge of Lanark off the Carluke to Lanark Road within the Clyde Valley in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. John George Robertson, a botanist and plant collector, who lived and farmed in Tasmania and Australia from 1831 to 1854, returned to Scotland and purchased Baronald in 1857. He built glasshouses including a vinery and orchard house on the steep slope to the side of his house for his collections of Australian plants. Robertson’s plant collection was put up for sale separately following his death in 1862. Baronald was remodelled for Allen Farie of Farme, Rutherglen in the late 1880s by Sir John James Burnett, a well known architect. The Faries continued to own Baronald until the Second World War. In 1944, Baronald became a private hospital where injured soldiers were treated. The hospital continued after the War. By 1963 the house became a hotel.



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