The house and stables were built in 1819 by Francis Simpson – a merchant trader with the East India Company.

Francis lived in the house with his daughter Frances and son William, having lost his wife Sophia in 1806. William was a sickly child and died in 1827 aged just 22. Franics remarrried in 1830 and died in 1831. Over the years the house had a number of tenants including Francis’ widowed wife Elizabeth.

In 1901, Plean House was purchased and owned by The Plean Colliery Company and the house was occupied by Wallace Thorneycroft – the coalmaster for the pit.

He later bought the house and estate in 1922 and it remained in the Thorneycroft family until 1970 when the house was sold to the National Coal Board and the contents auctioned off following the death of Wallace’s son Thomas, who lived there.

The house was left derelict and a fire in the 1970s destroyed the interior and roof of the house, leaving the shell of the walls that are still visible today.

It is now owned by Stirling Council who also own and operate Plean Country Park.