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Ross Priory

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Country House (17th Century) - (19th Century)

Site Name Ross Priory

Classification Country House (17th Century) - (19th Century)

Canmore ID 127767

Site Number NS48NW 9

NGR NS 41461 87566

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council West Dunbartonshire
  • Parish Kilmaronock (Dumbarton)
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Dumbarton
  • Former County Dunbartonshire

Archaeology Notes

NS48NW 9.00 41461 87566

NS48NW 9.01 41902 87413 Burial Ground

NS48NW 9.02 42164 87051 Lodge

NS48NW 9.03 41566 87745 Stables; Lakeside Cottage

NS48NW 9.04 41572 87764 Bothy

An archaeological evaluation was taken place in a field next to the priory ahead of a planned access trackway to the forest plantation alongside. No archaeological features were discovered.

J Somerville 2005

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Architecture Notes

NS48NW 9.00 41461 87566

Architect: James Gillespie Graham 1812 (additions)

REFERENCE - Scottish Record Office

Mason work done at Ross [Priory].

Estimate by Thomas Bell, mason.

1775 GD47/1117/10

Buildings new offices for Ross [Priory].

Specification for the work to be done for Mrs Macdonald Buchanan of Ross.

ND GD47/1117/31

Buildings a stair at Ross [Priory].

Estimate for building the stair 'at the offices of the Ross' with bluestone for from John Thomson's quarry.

Estimate for pillars of agate of the same dimensions as those at Portnellan.

Estimates signed by Henry Moir.

1804 GD47/1117/16

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Photographic Survey (1954)

Photographs by the Scottish National Buildings Record in 1954.

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