Glenstriven  House was built in the 1860s for Duncan Kennedy, a wealthy Glasgow  merchant, before passing to the Berry family who owned it until after World War II. 

During the war, Loch Striven was used to test the bouncing  bombs used by the Dambusters squadron in their famous raid. The site was chosen due to the  similarity of the terrain to that of the raid’s targets. This required  the house to be locked down (with curtains drawn and the servants  banished!) during the tests. More  recently, Glenstriven was a shooting estate for many years, with a renowned pheasant shoot set in the hills and gullies of the estate. 

Glenstriven House passed to the current owners in 2019, who instigated an extensive  renovation of the buildings and surrounding grounds. A new arboretum has been added, complementing the ancient Atlantic oak forest of the area (one of Europe’s few temperate rainforests), and work has started to reclaim the estate’s Victorian walled garden from decades of neglect.