Inveraray Castle Estate, Garron Screen Wall
Wall (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Inveraray Castle Estate, Garron Screen Wall
Classification Wall (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Inveraray Castle Policies; Garron Bridge
Canmore ID 219968
Site Number NN11SW 10.02
NGR NN 11357 10123
NGR Description Centred NN 11357 10123
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/219968
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Inveraray
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NN11SW 10.02 centred 11357 10123
See also:
NN11SW 10.00 11395 10097 Garron Bridge
NN11SW 10.01 11342 10134 Garron Bridge, Lodge
See also See also NN00NE 42 and NN00NE 47.
Field Visit (June 1988)
This lodge is situated 2km NE of Inveraray Castle (No. 184) and 45m WNW of the Garron Bridge (No. 268), to which it is linked by an arcaded screen-wall. It stands on the N side of the former military road (No. 264), at the gate of a beech avenue (now truncated by the re-routing of the A83 road) which led to a private approach to the castle, formed in 1775.Robert Mylne examined the site in August of that year, and in December he supplied a set of drawings, which survives, for the lodge and gate. He 'set out the situation of the lodge' the following August, and in January 1777 he gave the 5th Duke 'a long drawing' showing a symmetrical arrangement of screen-walls and lodges, centred on the bridge. Only the W half of the scheme was executed, and that not until 1783-4, while Mylne made 'improvements' to the outbuildings behind the screen-wall in 1785 (en.1).
RCAHMS 1992, visited June 1988
[see RCAHMS 1992 No. 195 for a full description of the lodge and screen walls]
Note (9 September 2011)
This site record was created to indicate a building which is, or was, listed but for which Canmore holds no supplementary information. Further information on listed buildings is available from http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/
Information from RCAHMS (SC) 9 September 2011
