Let Kinloch Castle fall into curated decay – and become the ruin that Scotland needs | Fraser MacDonald

Rather than spending millions more on this monument to wealth and domination, let’s embrace its managed declineKinloch Castle on the Isle of Rum was completed in 1900 as a playground for the wealthy textile heir Sir George Bullough, and now NatureScot – formerly Scottish Natural Heritage – can’t afford the costs of upkeep. That’s hardly surprising. Every detail of this building oozes extravagance: the exterior stonework has crenellations upon crenellations, while th