Arrochar, Arrochar House, Cottage
Cottage (18th Century)
Site Name Arrochar, Arrochar House, Cottage
Classification Cottage (18th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Inveriach House Cottage; The Cobbler Hotel, Cottage
Canmore ID 126750
Site Number NN20SE 21
NGR NN 29672 03880
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/126750
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Arrochar
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Dumbarton
- Former County Dunbartonshire
The Cobbler Hotel formerly Arrochar House/Inveriach House
Archaeological Evaluation (2005)
NN20SE 21 29672 03880
NN 2972 0393 (centre) An evaluation was undertaken on garden ground located to the rear (E) of the Cobbler Hotel which is built on the site of the 16th- to 19th-century seat of Clan MacFarlane, known as Inverioch or New Tarbet or Arrochar House, before becoming the Cobbler Hotel. The location of the earlier houses is unknown. No structural traces were found in a 5% evaluation of the area, and the map evidence indicates that the site has been in use as garden ground since at least the mid-19th century. The site of the late medieval castle/mansion of Clan MacFarlane is probably located
under the Cobbler Hotel, which dates to 1869. Only modern rubbish dumping and a spread of redeposited subsoil under the turf, probably from late 20th-century building work at the Cobbler Hotel, were found during the evaluation.
Report lodged with WoSAS SMR.
Sponsor: Mr Kevin Butterfield.
F Baker 2005
