Islay, Islay House, Home Farm, Farmhouse
Farmhouse (18th Century)
Site Name Islay, Islay House, Home Farm, Farmhouse
Classification Farmhouse (18th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Islay Home Farm
Canmore ID 142828
Site Number NR36SW 14.02
NGR NR 33570 62855
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/142828
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Killarow And Kilmeny
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
Field Visit (May 1976)
NR36SW 14.02 33570 62855
Situated on higher ground about 90 m E of the house is the main SW range of the farm steading (NR335 628), which probably dates from the later 18th century."* It is a plain harled building of two storeys comprising adjacent nine- and five-bay units and measuring 51.2m in length over all. An advanced and pedimented frontispiece contains a segmental-arched pend, and the pediment is capped by a stone-built clock-turret which formerly supported a belfry and finial as shown in a Heath watercolour of c.1830. Part of the range has been modernised to serve as a garage and store, but it retains stabling facilities to the S of the pend. The rest of the farmstead comprises various ranges of domestic and agricultural buildings loosely grouped around a large courtyard, the farm manager's house and its flanking buildings standing behind a screen-wall in the NW angle.
Visited May 1976
RCAHMS 1984
