Taynish House
House (18th Century)
Site Name Taynish House
Classification House (18th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Taynuish
Canmore ID 39121
Site Number NR78SW 22
NGR NR 72545 83121
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/39121
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish North Knapdale
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR78SW 22.00 NR 72545 83121 Taynish House
NR78SW 22.01 NR 72598 83050 Farmhouse and Steading
NR78SW 22.02 NR 72638 83053 Summer house / Gunroom
NR78SW 22.03 NR 7272 8298 Bathing house and pier
Field Visit (August 1984)
This small mansion is situated towards the SW end of the Taynish peninsula, equidistant some 250m from the E shore of the Linne Mhuirich and the W shore of the inlet of Loch Sween formed by Taynish Island. From the 15th to the 18th century Taynish was the seat of a branch of the MacNeill family, and the core of the existing building is a laird's house, probably built in the first half of the 18th century. This is represented in schematic form on Stephen MacDougall's1747 map of the Taynish estate as a two-storeyed building of five bays. This house was extended at each end by a bow, probably some time after 1780 when the estate was acquired by Sir Archibald Campbell of Inverneill (en.1*) and it remained in the possession of the same family until 1929. The building was repaired following damage by fire in 1955.
Roy's Map of about 1750 shows large enclosures with shelter-belts to SW and NE of the house, while MacDougall's plan indicates extensive planting close to the house. The rectangular garden of about 0.7ha S of the house, with its wall of lime-mortared masonry up to 3m high, is probably of late 18th-century date. About 100m SE of the house there are a large barn with attached farm-steading, and an octagonal dairy or summer-house, both probably of early 19th-centurydate.
RCAHMS 1992, visited August 1984
[see RCAHMS 1992 No. 182 for a full architectural description]
Measured Survey (13 August 1984)
RCAHMS surveyed Taynish House barn on 13 August 1984 producing a ground floor plan and east elevation at a scale of 1:100. The plan and elevation were redrawn in ink and published at a scale of 1:250 (RCAHMS 1992, 368C).
Measured Survey (August 1984)
RCAHMS surveyed Taynish House dairy in August 1984 producing a ground floor plan and south elevation at a scale of 1:100. The plan and elevation were redrawn in ink and published at a scale of 1:250 (RCAHMS 1992, 368B).
Measured Survey (16 August 1984)
RCAHMS surveyed Taynish House on 16 August 1984 producing a phased plan at a scale of 1:100. The plan was redrawn in ink and published at a scale of 1:250 (RCAHMS 1992, 366A).
