Minard Castle
Minard Castle is a crenellated country house on a low headland south of Minard Bay on the northwest bank of Loch Fyne in the Scottish administrative division of Argyll and Bute .
history
The first Georgian house on the site was built by Archibald Campbell of Knockbuy (1693-1790). The year of construction 1775 is indicated on the gutter outlets on the building.
In 1842 the property was sold to H. W. Askew , who immediately had extensive changes and additions made to the house, with which he commissioned the architect John Thomas Rochead from Glasgow . In 1848 this work was completed.
From 1875 to 1938, Minard Castle was owned by the Lloyd family . It was then converted into a hotel. In the 1970s, it was extensively renovated by the current owners and converted back into a private residence.
description
The original house, which is still preserved in the rear part of the current building, was a three-story building with a floor area of 18.3 meters × 18.3 meters. The rear northwest facade, plastered with Harl , and the windows on the upper floors of the three bay- wide side facades (northeast and southwest facades), the cornice under the projecting roof and the simple window frames made of gray-green sandstone represent the original style of the house. They differ significantly from the changes of the 19th century, coupled windows and fighters windows and crenellated parapets are made. A sloping gable roof rises behind the parapets . The house has octagonal chimneys.
The entrance front in the southeast belongs entirely to the new part of the house, which has had a T-shaped floor plan since the renovation in the middle of the 19th century. Rochead's annex covers an area of 36 meters by 7.5 meters and has two floors in the northeast and three floors in the southwest. The south-east facade of the two-story vestibule has towers with a rectangular floor plan protruding at the corners. The vestibule has a bay window on the first floor and a two-story yoke on the southeast side. The central tower with protruding parapet and an octagonal, high tourelle rises above the stairwell behind the vestibule and a smaller tower illuminates the original staircase. A tower with a rectangular floor plan was added to the western corner of the original house, which is connected to the south tower by a loggia with five arches.
On the northeast side of the extension is a long, one-story gallery that ends in a two-story tower; this serves as a chapel . In the middle of the gallery is the coat of arms of the current owner. Further coats of arms are attached to the outside of the vestibule.
Inside, too, the house was rebuilt in Victorian style .
Historic Scotland has listed Minard Castle as a Category B Historic Building.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Minard Castle . In: Canmore . Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
- ↑ a b c d e f Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
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Coordinates: 56 ° 5 '52.5 " N , 5 ° 15' 34.8" W.