Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 566365
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
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Ardgour House (formerly Cùil - back lying), 1765 The former seat of the Macleans of Ardgour, its core a sizeable square-fronted block with dressings of honey coloured stone from Renfrewshire (where Hugh Maclean, for whom it was built, owned Williamswood). Reconstructed by the architect/builder Alexander Squair, 1825-30, following a serious fire, the original three-storey block is now piend-roofed, Doric-porticoed, and clasped between two lower transverse pavilion wings. Inside, panelling, plasterwork and fixtures are all of the 1820s or later, though the original stone stair survives.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk