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Glenburn Hotel, built as a hydropathic spa hotel in 1843 to designs by David and James Hamilton, with extensive additions by John Orkney in 1887-8 and rebuilt in 1892-3 by John McLean Crawford. This was Rothesay’s most prominent hotel, offering visitors a range of therapeutic facilities in sumptuous surroundings. Although no longer operating as a spa hotel, the Glenburn is still in use as a major hotel for bus tours, and its elevated position overlooking the bay, with an impressive steep staircase leading through terraced gardens, has not been interrupted by later developments.

Category B-listed.

The Goatfell Murder

Incidentally Edwin Robert Rose invited his new found friend John Watson Lawrie to join him for drinks at the Glenburn Hotel to plan their climb of Goatfell the following day.
John Lawrie and Edwin Rose went up Goatfell on 15th July,1889 and only Lawrie came down. Rose’s badly mutilated body was found three weeks later hidden under a boulder in Coire nam Fuaran. Lawrie was apprehended in a wood outside Hamilton on 3rd September and charged that “he did assault Rose, and did throw him down, and did beat him, and did murder him”. He was tried and convicted in November.

Laurie died in Perth Prison on 4th October,1930, in the Lunatic Division. For many years prior to his death, he had been a trusted prisoner and allowed the freedom of Perth during the day.

The Arran Murder of 1889
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