Inveraray Castle Estate, Beehive Cottage View of Beehive Cottage showing blocked windows
SC 458254
Description Inveraray Castle Estate, Beehive Cottage View of Beehive Cottage showing blocked windows
Collection Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 458254
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of AG 930
Scope and Content Beehive Cottage, Inveraray estate, Argyll and Bute John, 5th Duke of Argyll (1723-1806), inherited Inveraray in 1770, and was responsible for much building on the policies and continuing the work of the 3rd Duke. His son, the Marquess of Lorne, was involved in the work from 1800. Beehive Cottage was designed as a gamekeeper's cottage in 1801 by the architect Alexander Nasmyth (1758-1840). This 'Circular Cotage for one family' had a single room built around its central chimney, one segment being cut out to use as the kitchen. Nasmyth thought the central chimney would be acceptable locally because of its similarity to the canopied central hearth of traditional rural dwellings. The conical slated roof, originally thatched, rises towards the circular ashlar chimney. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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