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Scottish Style

Episode 4 of 6

Fred Dibnah travels to Scotland to demonstrate the engineering and design skills that shaped Scottish baronial style.

Fred Dibnah travels to Scotland to demonstrate the engineering and design skills that shaped Scottish baronial style.

At Glamis Castle, Fred shows how a simple sandstone tower house was transformed 400 years ago into a great house with more than a passing resemblance to a fairy-tale castle, with the help of stonemasons from Aberdeen and plasterers from Italy.

The House of Dun, near Montrose, is one of the finest country houses to be designed by William Adam, and Fred gets stuck into some ornamental plasterwork at a specialist manufacturer's. But it was Adam's son Robert who made such an impact on house building that he had an architectural style named after him, and to demonstrate his achievement, Fred travels to Culzean Castle on the Ayrshire coast.

28 minutes

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Next Thursday 19:00
BBC Four

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Presenter Fred Dibnah

Broadcasts

  • Mon 4 Mar 2002 20:30
    BBC Two England
  • Wed 3 Sep 2014 13:00
    BBC Two HD, Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland & England only
  • Sat 10 Jan 2015 10:45
    BBC Two HD, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales & England only
  • Thu 19 Nov 2020 19:00
    BBC Four
  • Fri 20 Nov 2020 02:00
    BBC Four
  • Tue 1 Feb 2022 19:30
    BBC Four
  • Wed 2 Feb 2022 02:00
    BBC Four
  • Wed 31 May 2023 19:30
    BBC Four
  • Thu 1 Jun 2023 01:00
    BBC Four
  • Tue 14 Oct 2025 19:00
    BBC Four
  • Wed 15 Oct 2025 01:30
    BBC Four
  • Next Thursday 19:00
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