Finnart, Arrochar Road, Finnart House, Lodge
Lodge (19th Century)
Site Name Finnart, Arrochar Road, Finnart House, Lodge
Classification Lodge (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Finnart Ocean Terminal; Finnart Oil Terminal; Finnart Lodge With Boundary Wall
Canmore ID 41495
Site Number NS29SW 6
NGR NS 23953 94960
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/41495
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Rhu
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Dumbarton
- Former County Dunbartonshire
NS29SW 6 23953 94960
For associated Finnart House (NS 2415 9510), see NS29NW 17.
Picturesque gate lodge. Single storey over raised basement to NW (falling ground to burn). Circular-plan main block with gabled and piend-roofed
projections forming bi-axial V-arrangement to main elevation. Rubble with stugged red sandstone margins and dressings; quoin strips. Projecting eaves; exposed rafters.
The lodge was the lodge to Finnart House, the former seat of Edward Caird who was a relative of John and Edward Caird, principal and professor respectively of Glasgow University. (Historic Scotland)
