Close to Loch Lomond and 30 minutes from Glasgow airport. Drumhead Castle is a baronial mansion in Argyll that was built on the site of fortified ruins. It is situated in ancient woodland on the edge of Loch Lomond National Park with lovely views to the west coast of Scotland. Archibald Buchanan built a house here, now the old wing of the castle, in 1700. He handed this down to his son-in-law Mr D
unlop at the wedding of his only daughter, on the insistence that their name be continued as Buchanan-Dunlop. The Buchanan-Dunlops were a family of wealthy merchants and went on to build the grand late Georgian wing of Drumhead Castle in the first half of the 19th Century. It was Major Buchanan-Dunlop who was reprimanded for his famous Christmas Day game of football with the Germans during the First World War. In the Second World War Drumhead Castle became an officers HQ for a major gun battery protecting the Clyde. A German bomb narrowly missed the castle and damaged an ancient oak tree, creating a crater still visible in the paddock near the house.
