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Ardfern, Craignish Manse
Manse (19th Century)
Site Name Ardfern, Craignish Manse
Classification Manse (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Ardfern House
Canmore ID 141212
Site Number NM80SW 61
NGR NM 80334 04245
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/141212
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Craignish
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
Photographic Survey (April 1962)
Three photographs of Craignish Manse and Church, Argyll, by the Scottish Development Department in 1962 (in the Scottish National Buildings Record Collection)
Field Visit (June 1989)
This two-storeyed house, built in 1834 as the manse of Craignish parish (en.1), stands on rising ground 120m NW of the parish church (No. 21). It measures 12m by 9.8m, and the walls are of harled rubble with exposed margins of droved ashlar. The roof is hipped, with chimneystacks rising from the centres of the end-walls.
The principal front, which faces SE, is of three symmetrical bays, with a slightly-advanced pedimented centrepiece terminating in a chimneystack banded by an emphatic roll-moulding. The entrance-doorway has a moulded surround surmounted by a simple cornice, and the windows are twelve-paned. Projecting from the NE front there is an outshot of one-and-a-half storeys, 15m long, which is of mid-19th-century date.
Internally, the rooms are disposed around a dog-leg staircase which rises to the NE and has a simple wrought-iron balustrade. There are a number of original cast-iron fireplaces, and above the first-floor landing there is a coffered plaster vault of segmental form.
RCAHMS 1992, visited June 1989
