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Roshven House

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Country House (19th Century)

Site Name Roshven House

Classification Country House (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Roshven, Including Courtyard Buildings, Garden Walls And Sundial; Roshven House Policies; Roshven Estate

Canmore ID 108088

Site Number NM77NW 9

NGR NM 70608 78787

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/108088

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Second floor, main stair, view including stair to attics
Second floor, main stair, view including stair to atticsFirst floor, library, fireplace, detailDistant view from WGarden entrance gate (adjacent to house), detailE courtyard range, arched opening, 1896 datestone, detailNE corner, concrete window surround, detailView of entrance porch from NEEntrance hall, tiled floor, detailView of main stair hall from SGround floor, Professor Blackburn's office, view from SEGround floor, studio, view from EGround floor, scullery, NW wall, detailFirst floor, library, fireplace and embossed leather panel above, detailFirst floor, library, panelling and cornice, detailFirst floor, NW bedroom, projecting fireplace, detailFirst floor, NW bedroom, projecting fireplace, detailSecond floor, exposed roof structure, detailSecond floor, exposed roof structure, detailE courtyard range, arched opening, sculpted panel depicting horse and chicken, detailView of main stair hall from SGround floor, housekeepers room, fireplace and desk, detailGround floor, kitchen, view from NWFirst floor, back stair, view from WFirst floor, drawing room, fireplace, detailFirst floor, drawing room, cornice, detailFirst floor, library, panelling and cornice, detailFirst floor, bedroom corridor, view from NWFirst floor, NW bedroom, view from NWSecond floor, W bedroom, view from SEView of second floor, NW corner roomView of entrance drive from SWView from SEView of S wing from SERoshven House. Photographic copy of drawing showing ground floor plan. Insc: 'Roshven No. 2. Plan of Principal Floor. 131 George Street. 9th Decr. 1857.'View of entrance drive from SWView of entrance drive with garden entrance gate off it from NEView from NView of NW front from NView from ENEE courtyard range, arched opening, sculpted panel depicting horse and chicken, detailView of S wing from SEDoocot, detailView of the beach from EView of entrance porch from SWMain stair hall, fireplace, detailGround floor, back stair, detailGround floor, back hall, wall, shelving, view from NFirst floor, library, S wall, embossed leather panel over fireplace, detailSecond floor, landing, view from NNESecond floor, W bedroom, view from SESecond floor, exposed roof structure, detailDistant view from WView from WDoocot, detailView of the beach from EWilliam and Vere Savile Blackburn's gravestone, detailView of entrance hall from NWGround floor, main stair, detailGround floor, studio, view from EGround floor, drying room, view from EGround floor, pantry off scullery, detailFirst floor, drawing room, view from EFirst floor, library, S wall, embossed leather panel over fireplace, detailFirst floor, NW bedroom, view from NWFirst floor, E central bedroom, detailSecond floor, landing, window surround, detailSecond floor, W bedroom, view from SESecond floor, W bedroom, floral wallpaper, detailSecond floor, exposed roof structure, detailSecond floor, exposed roof structure, detailView of NE front from NGeneral oblique aerial view centred on Roshven House, taken from the NNW.View of the bay from EGround floor, housekeepers room, fireplace and desk, detailFirst floor, drawing room, fireplace, detailFirst floor, library, embossed leather panel over fireplace, detailSecond floor, W bedroom, floral wallpaper, detailSecond floor, W bedroom, floral wallpaper, detailFirst floor, drawing room, cornice, detailDistant view from WView from WDoocot, detailView of the bay from NEEntrance porch, gothic window dated 1859, detailGround floor, studio, fireplace, detailGround floor, scullery, NW wall, detailFirst floor, library, fireplace and embossed leather panel above, detailFirst floor, NW bedroom, projecting fireplace, detailSecond floor, W bedroom, floral wallpaper, detailOblique aerial view of Roshven, taken from the S.View from SEView of E range and doocot from SGround floor, back hall, view from SFirst floor, drawing room, view from ESecond floor, landing, view from NESecond floor, landing, window surround, detailView of the bay from NEView from WView of E range and doocot from SView of the bay from E

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Arisaig And Moidart
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Lochaber
  • Former County Inverness-shire

Recording Your Heritage Online

Recording Your Heritage Online

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

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Archaeology Notes

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

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Architecture Notes

ARCHITECT: David Bryce, 1857 - 59

(Undated) information in NMRS.

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