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Knockdow House

Country House (18th Century)

Site Name Knockdow House

Classification Country House (18th Century)

Canmore ID 40754

Site Number NS17SW 10

NGR NS 10464 70653

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Argyll And Bute
  • Parish Inverchaolain
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Argyll And Bute
  • Former County Argyll

Architecture Notes

NMRS REFERENCE:

Knockdhu House/Knockdow.

Architect: George Mackie Watson - 1921 - additions.

NMRS PLANS:

Dick Peddie and MacKay, Edinburgh alterations

Attic 2, Bin 5, Bag 3 J R McKay 1930

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Field Visit (November 1988)

This mansion stands in wooded policies of 18th-centuryorigin on the W bank of the Ardyne Burn, 1km from the E shore of the mouth of Loch Striven. The estate of Kilmichael was acquired in 1753 by Colin Lamont of (Old) Knockdow (NS 095743), and became the seat of the family until the death of Sir Norman Lamont of Knockdow in 1949, although the name Knockdow was not adopted for the mansion before the second quarter of the 19th century (en.1).

The house comprises an L-plan of two-storeyed domestic ranges to Sand E, with the re-entrant filled by service accommodation. The S range has an 18th-century centre, much added to and altered in the 19th century, while in 1919-21 the E range was extended, and the whole interior extensively remodelled, by the Edinburgh architect G Mackie Watson (en.2). His plans, and other drawings including estate plans of 1817 and 1856, illustrate the original lay-out and

development of the house (en.3).

RCAHMS 1992, visited November 1988

[A full architectural description is provided in RCAHMS 1992, No. 171]

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