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Minard House (Castle). General view from South.

SC 559082

Description Minard House (Castle). General view from South.

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 559082

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of B 5858

Scope and Content View of Minard Castle from the south, Argyll and Bute In 1784 Archibald Campbell (1693-1790) had a plain Georgian house, known as Knockbuy, built. In 1842, the estate was sold to H W Askew. He employed the architect, John Thomas Rochead (1814-78), to alter and extend the house, renaming it Minard Castle. This principal front by Rochead covers the entire front of the original house. It is two-storeyed to the right of the porte-cochère and three-storeyed to the left. Behind the porte-cochère is a tower with a crenellated and corbelled parapet. John Thomas Rochead worked on Minard Castle between 1842 and 1848 and was responsible for changing a Palladian house into a Gothic mansion. Rochead had been a pupil of David Bryce and had worked with David Hamilton, setting up his own practice in 1841. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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