Virtual Tour: National Trust for Scotland: Bachelors’ Club, Tarbolton

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Bachelors Club

Lower Room
In the lower level of this 17th Century thatched cottage were the living quarters of John Richard. Period furnishings illustrate what this small house might have looked like at the time of Burns. A byre and alehouse once adjoined this room.

Upper Room
At one time the largest room in the village, it was here that Burns came in 1777 to take dancing lessons and in 1780 formed a debating society for unmarried men known as the Bachelors’ Club. On the 4th July 1781, Robert Burns also became a freemason in this room.