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Inverawe House
Date Stone (18th Century) (1754), Lairds House (18th Century) - (20th Century)
Site Name Inverawe House
Classification Date Stone (18th Century) (1754), Lairds House (18th Century) - (20th Century)
Canmore ID 151295
Site Number NN03SW 59
NGR NN 02173 31591
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/151295
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Ardchattan And Muckairn (Argyll And Bute)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NN03SW 59.00 02173 31591
NN03SW 59.01 NN 02204 31499 Outbuildings
For (associated) estate suspension bridge (at NN 01888 31508), see NN03SW 66.
NMRS REFERENCE:
Taynuilt - Inverawe.
Architect: Sir Robert Lorimer. 1913-14.
Field Visit (May 1968)
Although this site appears to have been occupied by a laird's residence at least as early as the beginnning of the 17th century (Blaeu’s Atlas, Lorn), the existing house is mainly of 19th- and 20th-century date. An examination of the ground-plan suggests that the nucleus of the present structure is a small oblong block of about the first half of the 18th century, and this conjecture gains some support from the manner in which the property is represented in Roy's Map of about 1750. The house was altered and extended in the Scottish Baronial style some time during the Victorian period, and was subsequently remodelled by Sir Robert Lorimer in 1913-14 (plans in the possession of the present proprietor), and by L C Norton in 1953-4, when it was considerably reduced in size.
CARVED STONE. Built into the W wall of the house there is an inserted stone panel bearing, within a moulded border, the inscription FEAR / GOD / OBEY / THE / KING and the date [?17]54. The inscription has evidently been partially re-cut, and repaired with cement, when the stone was inserted in its present position. The panel is said locally to have been brought from Fort William in about 1890, when the fort was partially destroyed by the formation of the railway.
This property was held by the Campbells of Inverawe from at least as early as the 16th century until 1765, when it was sold to Robert Campbell of Finab and Monzie. Inverawe subsequently passed by descent to Jane Campbell, wife of Alexander Campbell, 19th of Dunstaffnage, and in 1912 was purchased by James Currie (Campbell 1951, 39).
RCAHMS 1975, visited May 1968.
