Campbeltown, Limecraigs House View from north

Description Campbeltown, Limecraigs House View from north

Date 1967

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 565802

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of AG 1390

Scope and Content View of Limecraigs House from the north, Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute Limecraigs House dates from the early 18th century and formerly stood within its own grounds on the outskirts of Campbeltown. In the 1960s the grounds were used for building plots and the house was subdivided to form a number of dwellings. This house has two main storeys and an attic and when it was built had a single main room on either side of a central staircase. The masonry is of harled rubble and the roof is slated and hipped with projecting, or sprocketed eaves. Although later altered, the house is typical of a small laird's house of the time and is known to have been occupied as a dower house by Elizabeth Tollemache, widow of the first Duke of Argyll, who died there in 1735. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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