Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 567251
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/567251
Canna House, c.1865 A polite, four-square villa with an unusual fullwidth pediment and old fashioned lying pane glazing, all the original fittings surviving inside. The tin-roofed billiard room extension off the dining room (originally the drawing room) was built by the Thom family as a conservatory in the early 1900s, and decorated by them with botanical paintings; more recently it became an extension to John Lorne Campbell's library. The house contains a fascinating accumulation of objects relating to the Campbells' interests, from Compton Mackenzie's typewriter to a large collection of butterflies and moths. The tradition goes that Donald MacNeill was persuaded to build the house by his wife after she had returned from visiting some wealthy relatives in Glasgow's Kelvingrove. Described by Robert Buchanan in 1871 as 'a solid modern building...strangely out of keeping with the rude cabins and heather houses in the vicinity', it now seems as much a part of Canna as the mature woods that have softened the Coroghon slopes in little more than a generation.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
