Bute, Blackpark Plantation
Building (19th Century)
Site Name Bute, Blackpark Plantation
Classification Building (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Gatehouse
Canmore ID 78631
Site Number NS05NE 39
NGR NS 09108 55409
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/78631
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kingarth
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Buteshire
NS05NE 39 09108 55409.
Recorded during survey of deserted settlements; records are held in the Bute Museum.
Sponsor: Bute Antiq Natur Hist Soc; St Andrews Heritage Services.
Hannah and Proudfoot 1994.
NS 0911 5541 Site 19 Gatehouse
Beside Plan Road opposite Blackpark Plantation are the foundations of two buildings and traces of a yard wall. These cottages were occupied until about a century ago.
Proudfoot and Hannah 2000
NS 0911 5541 Settlement remains: Located W of Plan Road at Suidhe Plantation. There are foundations of 2 rectangular buildings and traces of yard wall. Large turf dyke curving NE through wood across road and entering Black Park. These are a double and single cottages dating to c. 1880.
Information from Bute Natural History Society Deserted Settlement Survey (1991-9)
(RCAHMS WP000273)
Gatehouse building is situated in the SE corner of a cultivated field 530m NE of Largizean farmsteading and immediately W of the Plan Road. It comprises a building measuring 24.4m from NNE to SSW by 7.6m transversely over mortared rubble walls reduced to no more than 0.4m in height. The interior was choked with an overgrown pile of field-cleared stones on the date of visit and no partitions or doorways were noted.
The building is depicted roofed on both the 1st and 2nd editions of the Ordnance Survey 6-inch map (Buteshire 1869, Sheet CCXV; 1897, Sheet CCXV.SE).
Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH, JH) 5 May 2009.
Field Visit (1863)
Field Visit (1991 - 1999)
Recorded during survey of deserted settlements; records are held in the Bute Museum.
Sponsor: Bute Antiq Natur Hist Soc; St Andrews Heritage Services.
Hannah and Proudfoot 1994.
NS 0911 5541 Site 19 Gatehouse
Beside Plan Road opposite Blackpark Plantation are the foundations of two buildings and traces of a yard wall. These cottages were occupied until about a century ago.
Proudfoot and Hannah 2000
NS 0911 5541 Settlement remains: Located W of Plan Road at Suidhe Plantation. There are foundations of 2 rectangular buildings and traces of yard wall. Large turf dyke curving NE through wood across road and entering Black Park. These are a double and single cottages dating to c. 1880.
Information from Bute Natural History Society Deserted Settlement Survey (1991-9)
(RCAHMS WP000273)
Field Visit (5 May 2009)
Gatehouse building is situated in the SE corner of a cultivated field 530m NE of Largizean farmsteading and immediately W of the Plan Road. It comprises a building measuring 24.4m from NNE to SSW by 7.6m transversely over mortared rubble walls reduced to no more than 0.4m in height. The interior was choked with an overgrown pile of field-cleared stones on the date of visit and no partitions or doorways were noted.
The building is depicted roofed on both the 1st and 2nd editions of the Ordnance Survey 6-inch map (Buteshire 1869, Sheet CCXV; 1897, Sheet CCXV.SE).
Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH, JH) 5 May 2009.
