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Note
Date 9 July 2009
Event ID 579620
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/579620
Upper Ardroscadale was a working farmsteading until relatively recently, but the L-plan range on the N and E side of the farmyard has been converted into a modern dwelling, the ranges on the S and W are now roofless, and the large sheds that once stood immediately to the S have been removed.
A farmstead called 'Ballyeugroch', which comprised seven buildings and yards, is depicted at or about this location on an 18th-century estate map (Foulis 1758-9). The 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire and Buteshire 1869, Sheet CCIII) shows the steading comprising two opposing L-plan ranges forming four sides of a central yard. The contemporary Name Book (No.5, p.49) describes Upper Ardroscadale as 'a fine farm house and offices, the property of the Marquis of Bute'. The disposition of the buildings remained little changed in the next thirty years, but the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch (Buteshire 1897, Sheet CCIII NE) shows that a horse-engine had been added to the S range. The farm is visible on RAF vertical aerial photographs taken in 1946 (106G/SCOT/UK94 4086) and at that time the plan is still unchanged and hay is stacked in the S yard.
Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 9 July 2009.
