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Green light for Collective Architecture’s Robert Burns farmstead revamp

By 2026-04-30T09:25:00

Ellisland farm © Axson for Robert Burns Trust 1

Source: Axson for Robert Burns Trust (design by Collective Architecture)

Scheme to return Burns’ cottage to how it looked when he lived there in 1791

Dumfries & Galloway council has approved Collective Architecture’s plans to restore the farm where Scottish poet Robert Burns wrote many of his most famous works.

The scheme will reverse historic damage to Ellisland Farm’s 18th century buildings and return Burns’ cottage to how it looked when he lived there in 1791.

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