New Plans Released to Restore the only Building Robert Burns Ever Built

First look at planned 'sensitive' restoration of Robert Burns family home

The family home of Robert Burns is set to be refurbished through plans for a “quiet and sensitive restoration” of the Category A-listed building

New plans released to restore the only building Robert Burns ever built

If the plans are approved, every room in Burns’s 1788 cottage will be opened to the public for the first time.

Sensitive Restoration Plan For Robert Burns’s Ellisland Farm Revealed

Plans are being submitted to restore Ellisland Farm near Dumfries, the only home ever designed and built by Robert Burns, with new images revealing a deliberately quiet and sensitive approach to conservation. The before-and-after images show how modern visitor facilities can be introduced without altering the 18th-century character of the farmstead or its rural setting.   Ellisland is where Burns wrote Auld Lang Syne, Tam o Shanter and more than…

New images reveal £12m vision for Robert Burns’ Ellisland Farm

The A-listed site was built by the bard as a home for his wife and children in 1788