A 36 BEDROOM country manor said to have inspired Robert Burns to write an irate poem is on the market at the cut price of £595,000.
Galloway House in Garlieston, Wigtownshire, came with a £1.5 million price tag when it went up for sale three years ago.
On the market once again, the 18th century property with 28 acres and a view of the Irish Sea is now more affordable than the average London flat, according to its sellers.
Over the decades it has had a variety of uses, including a boarding school and a hospital for the war wounded.
It was designed as an aristocratic home when built in the early 1740s for Lord Garlies, later the 6th Earl of Galloway.
His successor famously refused to receive Robert Burns at the manor and became the subject of the poet's 1793 work, Epigrams against the Earl of Galloway.
Burns wrote:
"What dost thou in that mansion fair?
Flit, Galloway, and find
Some narrow, dirty, dungeon cave,
The picture of thy mind."
The property passed to Lady Forteviot of Dupplin in 1930.
It was later sold to Glasgow Corporation and between 1947 and 1976 was used as a residential school.
It was then sold back into private ownership, firstly to an American buyer and then an Australian.
The sale of Galloway House is being handled by property law firm Aberdein Considine, which said it is expecting huge interest from the UK and abroad.
Managing partner Harvey Aberdein said: "The estate is steeped in Scottish history and to have inspired the work of Robert Burns, albeit a hostile epigram, is quite an accolade to have.
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