National Trust places in Ayrshire

4 National Trust places to visit in Ayrshire, including 2 houses & gardens, 1 castle, 1 historic site. Tick them off your checklist as you go, or see them on the National Trust map.

Bachelors' Club

House & Garden

Thatched Tarbolton house where the young Robert Burns founded a debating club, learned to dance and became a freemason.

Culzean Castle & Country Park

Castle

Robert Adam's cliff-top castle above 260 hectares of woods, beaches, follies and play parks on the Ayrshire coast, cared for by the National Trust for Scotland.

Robert Burns Birthplace Museum

Historic Site

The cottage where Scotland's national poet was born, a museum of 5,000 Burns treasures, and the Auld Kirk and Brig o' Doon of Tam o' Shanter.

Souter Johnnie's Cottage

House & Garden

Thatched home of the shoemaker behind Tam o' Shanter's Souter Johnnie, with 1828 stone figures of the poem's characters in the garden alehouse.

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