"This intensely romantic gothic hotel in Ballantrae, Ayrshire, was once the family seat of the Earl of Inchcape. Concealed behind wrought iron gates, this hotel remains one of the country’s finest examples of the Scottish Baronial school of architecture: a feast of turrets, battlements and soaring domes. The gardens, meanwhile, are a horticulturist’s dream. Its exotic plants date back to Victorian times, there’s a forest of giant sequoias – even a surprisingly grand oak sprung from a seed originally planted by Charles II at Longleat."
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