Coll, Grishipoll House
Ditch(S) (Post Medieval), Lairds House (18th Century), Rig And Furrow(S) (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)(Possible), Unidentified Pottery(S) (Prehistoric) - (Medieval)
Site Name Coll, Grishipoll House
Classification Ditch(S) (Post Medieval), Lairds House (18th Century), Rig And Furrow(S) (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)(Possible), Unidentified Pottery(S) (Prehistoric) - (Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) White House; Greshipol House
Canmore ID 21554
Site Number NM15NE 16
NGR NM 19039 59733
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/21554
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Coll
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
C18th house, three bay, two storey with attic. Once the factors house for the Coll Estate. Empty by the mid C19th due to cracks appearing, the house being built on sand, though there appears to have been little further deterioration. Stabilised and elegantly modernised by W T Architects in 2009-10 for residential use.
RCAHMS (CAJS) 2012.
NM15NE 16 19039 59733
(NM 1903 5973) Grishipoll House: This mid-18th-century laird's house, which now survives as a roofless ruin, is a plain two-storyed building of rectangular plan. The house is gable-ended, and is subdivided by a mid-gable; the accommodation formerly included a garret within the roof-space. The masonry is of harled rubble laid in lime mortar. (Full architectural description given.) There are no visible remains of an earlier building on this site, which has a traditional history of occupation dating from at least the later Middle Ages.
RCAHMS 1980, visited 1973; E Beveridge 1903
Grishipoll House, known locally as 'The White House' is a roofless shell. There is no trace of any earlier building. A stone alleged to have come from this house and reputed to bear the date 1737 is said to be near the westernmost croft of the township of Grishipoll but it has not been located.
Visited by OS (R L) 18 June 1972
One unroofed building of two compartments is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire, Island of Coll 1881, sheet xxxvi) and on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1976).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 7 April 1999
Photographic Survey (21 April 2008)
Photographed by the Listed Building Area Survey, Argyll upgrade programme.
RCAHMS (CAJS) 2012.
Standing Building Recording (4 July 2008 - 7 July 2008)
NM 190 597 Historic building works, carried out 4–7 July 2008, recorded a large two-storey structure made of local rubble set in lime mortar. The structure consisted of three substantial gables; one at each end and a central one (aligned off-centre to the S), with a symmetrical eastern frontage. The central gable divided the interior creating two rooms. The upper and lower rooms at the northern end both had a further partition.
Although the eastern elevation was originally constructed with a central entrance on both the lower and upper floors, at some point the lower section of the upper entrance was blocked to form a window. A draw-bar slot in the southern jamb of the main entrance indicates that at some point the house required this defensive feature. Documentary sources suggest that the house was built at some time between 1737 and 1754, and cartographic evidence shows that it was abandoned and unroofed by 1881.
Archive: RCAHMS. Report: WoSAS
Funder: Seonaid and Alex MacLean-Bristol
Rebecca Shaw (Rebecca Shaw Archaeological Services), 2008
Watching Brief (27 October 2008 - 6 July 2009)
NM 190 597 (centred on) A programme of works was undertaken between 27 October 2008–6 July 2009. The
work consisted of the monitoring of all ground-breaking works and the subsequent excavation of the features that were uncovered. Of the eight features investigated two were possible drainage ditches (1112 and 1120), two possible rigs (1108 and 1113), with feature 1124 also bearing similarities to rigs, and three features 1106, 1114 and 1130, which all appeared to be fairly late in date.
From the amount of handmade pottery it is apparent that the immediate area around Grishipol House was settled before the mid-18th century. The prehistoric sherds in conjunction with the sherds of Beaker pottery found around Grishipol c1980, indicate prehistoric activity in the area. However, although some of the sherds may be prehistoric, most of them were not diagnostic, and some of the pottery has also been dated to the Norse and medieval periods, demonstrating the continued occupation of the site over a long period of time.
Archive: RCAHMS. Report: WoSAS SMR
Funder: Seonaid and Alex MacLean-Bristol
Rebecca Shaw – Rebecca Shaw Archaeological Services
