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Bute, Largizean
Farmstead (Post Medieval)
Site Name Bute, Largizean
Classification Farmstead (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 300764
Site Number NS05SE 45
NGR NS 0879 5496
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/300764
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kingarth
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Buteshire
NS05SE 45 0879 5496
Largizean is a working farmsteading comprising a mixture of 19th century buildings and modern sheds, none of which was recorded in detail on the date of visit. ‘Lergizean’ is depicted on Roy’s Military Map (1747-55) and a contemporary estate map (Foulis 1758-9) shows two settlement foci, one of two buildings and one of three, 160m apart, labelled ‘Largzain’. The 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire and Buteshire 1869, Sheet CCXV) depicts the steading consisting of ranges around three sides of a yard that was open to the NNW, with the long WSW range having a horse-engine attached to its outer face and a small garden immediately E of the short ENE range. The 2nd edition of the map shows that by the mid 1890s the horse-engine on the WSW side had been replaced by a smaller one attached to the S end of the ENE range (in the SW corner of the garden) and the open WNW side of the yard had been partly blocked by an extension towards the ENE of the N end of the WSW range (Argyllshire and Buteshire 1897, Sheet CCXV).
Visited by RCAHMS (GFG) 21 July 2009.
Field Visit (21 July 2009)
Largizean is a working farmsteading comprising a mixture of 19th century buildings and modern sheds, none of which was recorded in detail on the date of visit. ‘Lergizean’ is depicted on Roy’s Military Map (1747-55) and a contemporary estate map (Foulis 1758-9) shows two settlement foci, one of two buildings and one of three, 160m apart, labelled ‘Largzain’. The 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire and Buteshire 1869, Sheet CCXV) depicts the steading consisting of ranges around three sides of a yard that was open to the NNW, with the long WSW range having a horse-engine attached to its outer face and a small garden immediately E of the short ENE range. The 2nd edition of the map shows that by the mid 1890s the horse-engine on the WSW side had been replaced by a smaller one attached to the S end of the ENE range (in the SW corner of the garden) and the open WNW side of the yard had been partly blocked by an extension towards the ENE of the N end of the WSW range (Argyllshire and Buteshire 1897, Sheet CCXV).
Visited by RCAHMS (GFG) 21 July 2009.
