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Inveraray, South Main Street East, Relief Land
Tenement (18th Century)
Site Name Inveraray, South Main Street East, Relief Land
Classification Tenement (18th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 1 - 18 Relief Land
Canmore ID 151648
Site Number NN00NE 80
NGR NN 09577 08367
NGR Description NN 09588 08392 to NN 09561 08343
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/151648
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Inveraray
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NN00NE 80 09588 08392 to 09561 08343
Built 1776, mason, John Brown.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
Field Visit (April 1989)
SOUTH MAIN STREET, EAST SIDE
Relief Land. This austere three-storeyed block, occupying the E side of South Main Street opposite Arkland, was built by the mason John Brown to Robert Mylne's designs in1775-6, to house families of the labouring class (en.14). Its elevation is almost identical with that of Arkland, the 58.8m frontage being 1.2m longer than that of the earlier block, but no dressed stonework is used and the window-openings are both smaller and more uniform in size. Each of the five divisions of the block has a narrow central pend, that to the N having a floor of schist flags and a vault of rubble whereas some of the others have brick vaults. Access to the first floor was originally by stone stairs entered by doors in the N walls of the pend, and to the upper floors by internal timber stairs, all of double quarter-turn design (en.15), but in Lindsay's reconstruction these were replaced by external concrete stairs at the rear, and their doorways were blocked. The ground floor was divided into a two-room dwelling on each side of the pend, ceiled with brick vaults springing from a stone spine-wall (en.16*). Each room was originally entered from the pend by a door near its outer wall, but these openings have been replaced by single more central doors, and the doorways connecting the rooms have also been altered. Each of the upper floors now comprises a single flat, but in the original arrangement a central corridor divided two properties, that to the N being of two rooms whereas the other had an additional small room above the entrance to the pend. The internal partitions at this level were of lath-and-plaster.
RCAHMS 1992, visited c. April 1989
