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Port Appin, The Pier House
Ferrykeepers Cottage (19th Century)
Site Name Port Appin, The Pier House
Classification Ferrykeepers Cottage (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Ferry House, Old Ferry House; The Pier House
Canmore ID 156783
Site Number NM94NW 37
NGR NM 90242 45337
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/156783
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Lismore And Appin (Argyll And Bute)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
Mid 1990's hotel based on earlier designs of pier houses.
Field Visit (July 1968)
NM 902 453. The name Old Ferryhouse applies to a pair of early 19th-century cottages situated immediately behind Port Appin pier. The cottages are constructed of lime-washed rubble with slate roofs, and are built parallel to each other with bowed gable-ends overlooking the shore (Plate 117D); both have been remodelled internally within recent years. According to local information, the space between the two cottages was formerly roofed over to serve as a boat-house. The Lismore-Appin ferry is on record as early as c. 1630, and is also mentioned by the authors of the first and second Statistical Accounts (Geog. Coll., ii, 155; Stat. Acct., I (1791), 499; NSA, vii (Argyll), 255).
RCAHMS 1975, visited July 1968.
