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The Spiers Room, on the second floor, is one of two twin-bedded rooms and overlooks the Pinetum, lawns and quadrangle to the east of the Castle with views down the South Drive. The en-suite facilities include a bath with shower over.
The Spiers Family - The Napiers sold Culcreuch to Peter Spiers (a relation by marriage) in 1769 for a reputed £15,000. Peter Spiers was a Glasgow merchant and his arrival marked the entry of Fintry into the world of industry, when he decided to establish a cotton spinning, woollen weaving mill and a distillery in Fintry.
This short excursion into the industrial world spawned the village of Fintry as we know it today, downstream from old Fintry by the Kirk and sited around the new mills. The development included in addition the new road bridge by the south lodge entrance and all the houses on the main street which were built to house the imported workers from Dewsbury in Yorkshire.
The advent of steam power and the cost of transport killed the enterprise around the middle of the 19th century.