Achara House
House (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Achara House
Classification House (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Acharra House; Duror, Achara House
Canmore ID 23335
Site Number NM95SE 5
NGR NM 98810 54432
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/23335
- Council Highland
- Parish Lismore And Appin (Lochaber)
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Argyll
Achara House, 1907 Remodelling of a 19th-century farmhouse of the Stewarts of Ardsheal for Charles Stewart, a wealthy lawyer. Modified in the late 1960s by Leslie Grahame MacDougall, who demolished the farmhouse and a c.1870-80 crowstepped entrance block, and replaced it with a bowed entrance porch. The architect of the baronial block is not recorded, but the influence of Lorimer is evident, supporting a family tradition that he met Stewart at Ardkinglas and sketched out the design on a napkin.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
