Field Visit
Date August 1988
Event ID 1082664
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1082664
The seat of the Campbell family of Kilberry lies in wooded grounds 0.6km from Kilberry Bay on the E shore of the Sound of Jura, and about 50m W of the site of the medieval parish church (No. 48). A tower-house of L-plan, probably of late 16th-century date, was refurbished in 1727 but severely damaged by fire in 1772, when Colin Campbell prepared a remarkable series of annotated plans and elevations in connection with his insurance claim (en.1). Although Cockburn claimed in 1843 that 'not a single organised fragment now remains', some walls appear to have been incorporated in the small baronial mansion designed in the following year by the Edinburgh architect Thomas Brown for John Campbell of Kilberry, which was greatly extended to W and N, to the designs of Peddie and Kinnear, in 1873 (en.2). The house remains substantially unaltered since that date.
RCAHMS 1992, visited August 1988
[A full architectural description and historical note is provided in RCAHMS 1992, 289-292]
