Taymouth Castle, Rustic Lodge. View from E Digital image of PT 592

Description Taymouth Castle, Rustic Lodge. View from E Digital image of PT 592

Date 6/1965

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

Catalogue Number SC 766016

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of PT 592

Scope and Content Rustic Lodge from east, Taymouth Castle, Perth & Kinross This shows Rustic Lodge which was built in the 1830s from rock-faced rubble. The cottage has lattice window frames and a roof supported on log-columns. The large portico (porch) on the left has a piend roof (roof with four sloping sides) with undulating eaves and is supported on log-columns. The development of Taymouth Castle landscape can be traced back to before 1700 and has had six major phases: pre-1707; the grand formal landscape between 1707 and 1740; the landscape park between 1740 and 1810; the remodelling and replanting between 1810 and 1862; a dormant period between 1862 and 1922 when not much was done to the grounds; and the decline and fragmentation of the estate from 1922. This lodge is part of the 1810-62 phase when the house and estate were substantially redesigned. Taymouth Castle was built for the Campbells of Breadalbane and stands on the site of Balloch Castle, which was built c.1550. Taymouth's main block, built between 1802 and 1810, was designed by James Elliot (1770-1810) and the east wing, built between 1818 and 1821, was designed by William Atkinson (c.1773-1839). The west pavilion, built in the early 18th century, was designed by William Adam (1689-1748) and was altered by James Gillespie Graham (1777-1855). The castle has important interior decoration by the Italian plasterer Francis Bernasconi and was visited by Queen Victoria in 1842. The Mactaggart family bought the estate in 1922 and converted the castle into a hotel and the deer park into a golf course. The castle was a convalescent home during World War II and has had several uses until c.1983 when it became unoccupied. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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