National Trust for Scotland places in Ayrshire

4 National Trust for Scotland 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 map.

Bachelors' Club
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
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
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
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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