Roshven House

Roshven (An fhros-bheinn -hill of showers) c.1827, remodelled David Bryce, 1857-9 Baronial mansion with late Georgian laird's house visible at its core. By 1855 this earlier part was 'a half rotten old house … 2 stories high with dilapidated attics above'. Bryce added a robust crowstepped and turretted tower house block containing principal rooms to the south, with a lower kitchen/service wing incorporating an existing detached block on the other side. This remodelling as a romantic Highland holiday home was carried out for the widely-travelled Glasgow Professor Hugh Blackburn and his wife Jemima, who bought Roshven in 1854. One of the foremost artists of her day, Jemima's contribution is evident in the bird-carved capitals that frame a pair of leaded lights in the porch, and detailing in the first floor drawing room; her studio was later converted to a chapel. A further remodelling of the old house in 1896 is characterised by the use of concrete, probably the result of Blackburn's connections in the engineering world.

Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk

NM77NW 9.00 70608 78787

Roshven [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1973.

NM77NW 9.01 NM 70595 78861 Boat house (Loch Ailort)

NM77NW 9.02 NM 70190 78354 West Lodge

NM77NW 9.03 Centred NM 70947 78640 The Square

NM77NW 9.04 NM 71789 78552 East Lodge

NM77NW 9.05 Centred NM 71890 78554 Roshven Farm

ARCHITECT: David Bryce, 1857 - 59

(Undated) information in NMRS.