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Strachur House, Home Farm, Stables, North East Range
Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Kennels (Period Unassigned), Stable(S) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Strachur House, Home Farm, Stables, North East Range
Classification Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Kennels (Period Unassigned), Stable(S) (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Court Of Offices; Stables; Strachur House Policies
Canmore ID 264822
Site Number NN00SE 35.07
NGR NN 09098 01558
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/264822
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Strachur
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
Field Visit (July 1987)
COURT OF OFFICES. The 'very complete court of offices, which, perhaps, exceed the proportion they should bear to the house' (en.7), comprises four ranges round a rectangular courtyard, measuring 36.5m from NE to SW by 29.3m overall. The NW range, facing the ornamental bridge, and the NE range, both have advanced centrepieces with elliptical arches and moulded pediments. The former, which has a central pend dividing two cottages, has a small oval window in the pediment, which is surmounted by an octagonal timber dovecot. The NE range, with a circular window breaking the lower frame of the pediment, contains stables and an upper hayloft reached by forestairs at the gable-walls. The SW range, formerly a coach-house and now a garage, has a central large round-arched opening in each wall, while the SE range of cottages has been much altered. An L-shaped block to the E, probably of late 18th-century date, includes barns and a cart-shed, and a square tack room of mid-19th-century date stands in the yard enclosed by this block and the stable-range.
RCAHMS 1992, visited July 1987
