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Field Visit
Date July 1985
Event ID 1082982
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1082982
This mansion stands in wooded policies some 1.5km SSE of Lochgilphead, with a S outlook across terraced gardens towards Loch Gilp. In 1816 the site was occupied by a rectangular house with a central wing on the SSW, having offices round three sides of a court a few metres to the N. This house belonged to the Campbells of Kilmory, a cadet branch of the Campbells of Auchenbreck, and Peter Campbell, last resident member of the family, made additions and built a new court of offices 180m to the SE, between 1816 and 1820 (en.1). The house was incorporated into the mansion built by his successor, Sir John Powlett Orde, Bt, 'so as not to be distinguished from the new' (en.2). A large octagonal SW tower and a W range in Gothick style were built between about 1828 and 1836, to the designs of the London architect ,J G Davis (en.3). Further extensions in Tudor style to the E and SE, made in the two decades preceding Sir John Orde's death in1878, completed the house's present U-plan. For much of the present century it was occupied as a hotel, but in 1974 it became the headquarters of Argyll and Bute District Council. A detached NW block and linking corridor in modern style were erected in 1980-2, and the main block was refurbished following a fire in 1983 (en.4).
RCAHMS 1992, visited July 1985
[A full architectural description is provided in RCAHMS 1992 No. 169]
