Publication Account

Date 2009

Event ID 1019604

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

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RCAHMS Commissioners Field Meeting

Lubas Farm is situated in the south west of Bute, in pasture fields 1km north of Dunagoil and 500m east from Lubas Bay. It is a good example of a smaller farm, relatively unspoilt, which retains slate roofs and patterns of fenestration from its early nineteenth century reconstruction. The tenant will be vacating the property in November and it may be refurbished by the estate. An estate map of ‘Lubaz’ by Foulis in 1758–9 depicted two groups of buildings flanking a road. Much later, and after reconstruction, the 1869 Ordnance Survey map showed the three bay farmhouse, more like a cottage in proportions and size, with a long range aligned north and south,attached to the east gable, and yards and garden to the north and west. Across the old road to the east there was another, longer and higher range, this time with a stepped ridge. By 1897 a single storey south range was added between the earlier two forming a U-plan courtyard, and the road to Dunagoil and Garrochty was moved to the east to skirt the farm. It was later developed with the addition of two horse gins and another range to the south west before 1919; larger sheds were built to the west in the later twentieth century. Importantly, the buildings retain a sense of the proportions, layout and workings of a small nineteenth century Bute farm; surviving boarded doors, sash and case windows and slit openings are characteristic details which may be lost during a restoration project.

Information from ‘The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, Commissioners’ Field Meeting 2009'.