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This project successfully funded on 15th October 2024, you can still support them with a donation.
Help Save and Restore Bannockburn House
Stirling, United Kingdom
Aim
Support Bannockburn House’s restoration. One room, one story, one step at a time.
Preserving History, Building Community: Help Restore Bannockburn House
Bannockburn House is a community-owned category A listed historic house on the outskirts of Stirling. After standing empty for 60 years, it was rescued by the local community in 2017. Since then, an extraordinary team of volunteers has worked tirelessly to bring it back to life for the benefit of the community, the nation, and everyone who cares about Scotland’s history.
But the scale of the repairs needed is immense. Despite the efforts of our Board and over 200 volunteers, the house and its irreplaceable interiors remain at real risk. Bannockburn House is now at a tipping point.
Your donation will help fund essential works to make the building wind and watertight, protecting fragile historic fabric, and the historic artefacts within. Every donation allows us to keep the doors open, continue conservation and research, and build a sustainable future for this remarkable place.
We are a registered charity, so every contribution goes directly towards the Trust’s mission: the conservation, restoration, and long-term protection of Bannockburn House and its estate.
Why It Matters:
Bannockburn House is full of rare surviving features and undiscovered stories, including remarkable plasterwork and interiors that have witnessed centuries of change. From Roman roads and medieval conflicts, to the industries that shaped modern Scotland, we have something for everyone.
The house is still revealing its secrets. During conservation and documentation work after the initial discovery of an 18th century musketball hole in panelling, researchers have identified new evidence consistent with a second 18th-century musket ball. Discovered in a bed linked to Prince Charles Edward Stuart’s stay in January 1746 this discovery will rewrite history and deepens one of Bannockburn House’s most intriguing Jacobite-era mysteries in Scotland's storied past.
This is what restoration makes possible: not only saving a building, but recovering the stories held within its walls.
The site itself has been in use for centuries, with the footprints of many through time; whether it’s Roman soldiers building roads; English Soldiers fleeing the Battle of Bannockburn, or simply 16th Century coal miners providing coal to keep Stirling Castle warm each era has left its mark. The House's links to Bonnie Prince Charlie's stay and later to the titan of tartan, Alexander Wilson, mean its story is significant to people from all over the world.
How You Can Help:
Over the past seven years Bannockburn House has become a place of learning, skills development, and community action. Whether through volunteering, education, partnerships with local schools, or supporting local causes through work in the gardens and estate we have a broad reach to support our visitors and community. Now we need your help to save this important resource.
With your help, we can protect this nationally and internationally important house, continue to share it with the public, and ensure Bannockburn House survives for generations to come.
Please donate today and be part of Bannockburn House’s restoration story.
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made