Building record MHG18 - Ardgour House

Summary

Mid C18 country house

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Grid reference Centred NM 9954 6383 (40m by 40m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NM96SE
Old County ARGYLL
Civil Parish ARDGOUR
Geographical Area LOCHABER

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Ardgour House, a small mansion, occupies the site of an earlier residence, established as the principal messuage of the barony of Ardgour by a royal charter of 1542 and commonly known until the 18th century as Cuil or Coull. The present house was built in 1765 and reconstructed after being gutted by fire in 1825.
Visited June 1973.
RCAHMS 1980.

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  • --- Text/Report: RCAHMS. 1980. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Argyll: an inventory of the monuments volume 3: Mull, Tiree, Coll and Northern Argyll (excluding the early medieval and later monuments of Iona). . 227-8, no. 349.

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Record last edited

Aug 31 2009 4:07PM

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