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Kilmory Castle
Country House (19th Century), Hotel (20th Century)
Site Name Kilmory Castle
Classification Country House (19th Century), Hotel (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Kilmory Castle Hotel; Kilmory Castle Policies; District Council Offices
Canmore ID 39397
Site Number NR88NE 30
NGR NR 86883 86730
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/39397
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kilmichael Glassary
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR88NE 30.00 86883 86730
NR88NE 30.01 NR 868 867 garden
NR88NE 30.02 NR 87033 86649 Home Farm
NR88NE 30.03 NR 87025 86687 Horse Excercise
For standing stone at NR 8674 8652, see NR88NE 14.
For cross from Kilmory Castle, now at St Margaret's Church, Lochgilphead (NR 8627 8822), see NR88NE 18.
For Kilmory Castle, gate (NR 86487 87675), see NR88NE 23.
NR 8688 8673 A watching brief was kept during excavations in advance of the construction of an extension to the N side of this large 19th century house, and for the foundations of a lift within an adjacent room. Nothing of archaeological significance was uncovered in either trench, and no artefacts pre-dating the late 19th century were retrieved.
Sponsor: Stewart & Shields Ltd
J Lewis 2004
NR88NE 30.00 8688 8673
NR88NE 30.01 868 867 garden
NR88NE 30.02 87033 86649 Home Farm with Horse Exercise Ring
NMRS REFERENCE:
Kilmory Castle, near Lochgilphead.
Owner: Association of Girls and Mixed Clubs.
Photographic Survey (1962)
Photographs by the Scottish National Buildings Record/Department of Health in 1962.
Field Visit (July 1985)
This mansion stands in wooded policies some 1.5km SSE of Lochgilphead, with a S outlook across terraced gardens towards Loch Gilp. In 1816 the site was occupied by a rectangular house with a central wing on the SSW, having offices round three sides of a court a few metres to the N. This house belonged to the Campbells of Kilmory, a cadet branch of the Campbells of Auchenbreck, and Peter Campbell, last resident member of the family, made additions and built a new court of offices 180m to the SE, between 1816 and 1820 (en.1). The house was incorporated into the mansion built by his successor, Sir John Powlett Orde, Bt, 'so as not to be distinguished from the new' (en.2). A large octagonal SW tower and a W range in Gothick style were built between about 1828 and 1836, to the designs of the London architect ,J G Davis (en.3). Further extensions in Tudor style to the E and SE, made in the two decades preceding Sir John Orde's death in1878, completed the house's present U-plan. For much of the present century it was occupied as a hotel, but in 1974 it became the headquarters of Argyll and Bute District Council. A detached NW block and linking corridor in modern style were erected in 1980-2, and the main block was refurbished following a fire in 1983 (en.4).
RCAHMS 1992, visited July 1985
[A full architectural description is provided in RCAHMS 1992 No. 169]
