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Barbreck, Old Barbreck
Farmhouse (Post Medieval), Folly (18th Century)
Site Name Barbreck, Old Barbreck
Classification Farmhouse (Post Medieval), Folly (18th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Folly; Gardener's House
Canmore ID 22751
Site Number NM80NW 29
NGR NM 83363 06881
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/22751
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Craignish
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NM80NW 29 8336 0688.
Old Barbreck. Now roofless, the predecessor of Barbreck House stands below Dunan Aula. A gothic facade with pointed arches masks a 2-storey building resembling the central part of Taynish House, built in the late 18th century. Was converted into gardeners houses, and has been in use for that purpose since 1790.
M Campbell and M Sandeman 1964.
Photographic Survey (1962)
Photographic survey of buildings on the Barbreck Estate, Argyll, by the Socttish National Buildings Record in 1962
Field Visit (May 1989)
FOLLY AND GARDEN. About 500m NE of the house there is a Gothick folly consisting principally of a SW-facing screen-wall 17m long divided into three bays. Each bay contains a large partly-infilled arch-pointed opening, and there are the remains of corbelled and crenellated parapets above the slightly advanced end-bays. The wall is built of random-rubble masonry and the quions and margins are of dressed sandstone. It was evidently erected to screen a small farmhouse, ruinous in 1961 and now reduced to its foundations.
Nearby to the NW there is a walled garden with a burn flowing through the centre and the remains of a gardener's cottage attached to the external face of the SE wall, which has been heightened. The other walls also show evidence of alterations and blocked-up openings. A shafted stone sundial with an octagonal copper dial engraved I MILLER EDINBURGH was noted in the garden in 1961 but has since been removed to Craigdhu (NM 82(054).
RCAHMS 1992, visited May 1989
