Standing Building Recording

Date 5 October 2015 - 9 October 2015

Event ID 1024702

Category Recording

Type Standing Building Recording

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1024702

NG 27466 05512 A historic building survey was carried out, 5–9 October 2015, of Canna House in advance of planned conservation work on the house and its archives.

Canna House was originally constructed by David MacNeill Jnr in c1865. He subsequently sold the island to ship builder Robert Thom, who lived in and extended the house (and also built the nearby Tighard House) in the early 20th century. The house and island were then purchased from the grandsons of Robert Thom by John Lorne Campbell, who moved there with his wife in the late 1930s. The Campbells renovated some of the interior

furnishings, updated the gas lighting and then subsequently installed electricity to the house.

John Lorne Campbell left the island to the National Trust for Scotland in the 1980s and, in the early 1990s, extensive renovations were carried out, including the reroofing of the main house and the replacement of nearly all the windows.

Today, many of the original late 19th-century and early/mid- 20th-century fixtures and fittings of the house still survive, including the fireplaces, original servants’ bell-pull system and the gas light fittings.

Archive: NRHE (intended)

Funder: The National Trust for Scotland

Diana Sproat and Gemma Hudson – AOC Archaeology Group

(Source: DES, Volume 17)