Duntrune Castle, Farm Steading. View from SW of gate piers with sculptured stags

Description Duntrune Castle, Farm Steading. View from SW of gate piers with sculptured stags

Date 1984

Catalogue Number AG 14434

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 769823

Scope and Content Gate Piers, Estate Outbuildings and Cottages, Duntrune Castle, Argyll & Bute, from south-west This shows rubble-built gate piers surmounted with model stags which marks the entrance to the estate. The small rubble-built cottage visible behind the right gate pier was probably built in the early 19th century. The architectural design of the cottage is functional rather than decorative and it would originally have been home for a farm labourer and his family who would also have worked on the estate. The stags appear to be carved out of stone with bronze antlers fixed to their heads. The stags were originally on the gate piers to the courtyard of Poltalloch House and were moved to this location by the family, possibly Muriel Malcolm, who redesigned the walled garden, when Poltalloch was abandoned. Duntrune Castle was built c.1600 on the shores of Loch Crinan and incorporates parts of an earlier structure. The building was renovated by the Malcolms of Poltalloch in c.1796, and Joseph G Davis undertook repairs and alterations to the castle between 1833 and 1835. The Malcolm family moved to the newly-built Poltalloch House in 1853 but returned to Duntrune in c.1953 when it was restored. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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