Standing Building Recording

Date September 2017 - October 2017

Event ID 1089985

Category Recording

Type Standing Building Recording

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1089985

NR 92844 91510 A standing building survey was undertaken,

September – October 2017, of the house in advance of its

restoration. Asknish House was an 18th-century house, a

replacement for an earlier house/castle dating to at least

the 16th century. The structure had been abandoned for a

number of years and water ingress had caused extensive rot.

The stripping back of 20th-century linings and opening up of

the original structure revealed original construction details,

including an interesting arrangement of principal joists in the

flooring and structural partitions. Recovered from within one

original partition was a mid-18th-century print of the Earl of

Bute, which had been broken up in its frame, accompanied

by a letter by an unknown writer, referring to the late Duke

of Argyll.

Archive: NRHE (intended)

Funder: Private individual

Kenneth Macfadyen – Addyman Archaeology

(Source: DES, Volume 19)