Field Visit
Date May 1989
Event ID 1082949
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1082949
This mansion stands in open landscaped policies in the lower valley of the Barbreck River, 1.4km from the head of Loch Craignish. The original Campbell family of Barbreck, descended from the Campbells of Lochawe in the 15th century, lost their estate by forfeiture in 1732 (see No. 277), and part of it was granted by the 4th Duke of Argyll in 1768 to John Campbell, a distinguished military officer and grandson of Alexander Campbell of Lochnell. He augmented the estate by purchases, including Turnalt (No. 183), and built the present house which bears the date 1790, although its first assessment for window-tax, with thirty-eight windows, was in 1793, the year before General Campbell's death. He was succeeded by his nephew, General Duncan Campbell of Lochnell (d.l837), and his great nephew, Admiral Donald Campbell of Achanduin and Barbreck (d.l856), whose descendants held the estate until 1930.
RCAHMS 1992, visited May 1989
[A full architectural description is provided in RCAHMS 1992 No. 155]
