Kilmory Castle, steading: View of service block to Kilmory Castle (steading?) from NW

Description Kilmory Castle, steading: View of service block to Kilmory Castle (steading?) from NW

Date c. 1980

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

Catalogue Number A 75366

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 558929

Scope and Content View of the court of offices at Kilmory Castle from the north-west, Argyll and Bute In 1816, Kilmory Castle, which had 18th-century origins, consisted of a rectangular house with a central wing. This was incorporated into a Tudor Gothic mansion built for Sir John Powlett Orde between 1828 and 1836, which was again extended in 1860-78. This is the entrance to the court of offices and courtyard. The original offices were built in 1816 and rebuilt in the 1830s, although the single-storeyed rubble-built buildings visible through the archway are of a later date. The entrance front has a gabled four-centred archway. Four-centred arches are composed of four arcs, two of which describe arcs from the springing point and two of which describe arcs below that level. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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