Basic Site Details Name: | Inverawe House | Town, district or village: | Taynuilt, Loch Awe | City or county: | Argyll | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | B Listed | Grid ref: | | Notes: | | Building Type ClassificationThe building is classified under the following categories: | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes | | Country House | | |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes | | 1850 | 1852 | | Baronial remodelling | | 1913 | | | Alterations and additions | | 1953 | | | Building cut down | | 24 April 1953 | | Reconstruction | Plans for existing property drawn up - also remodelling which included removal of N wing, high gable on W elevation and reduction of height of corner turrets and rebuilding of parapet |
PeopleDesign and ConstructionThe following individuals or organisations have carried out design/construction work. Where architects or practices worked together, matching letters appear beside their names in the Partnership Group column. | | Name | Role | Partnership Group | From | To | Notes | | Charles Wilson | | | 1850 | 1852 | Baronial remodelling | | (Sir) Robert Stodart Lorimer | | | 1913 | | Alterations and additions | | Leslie C Norton | | A | 1953 | | Plans for existing property drawn up - also remodelling which included removal of N wing, high gable on W elevation and reduction of height of corner turrets and rebuilding of parapet |
ClientsThe following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design: | | Name | Notes | | Currie, James | Client for 1913 work |
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | Savage, Peter | 1980 | Lorimer and the Edinburgh Craft Designers | | Edinburgh: Paul Harris Publishing, 1980 (also paperback ed, London & Edinburgh: Steve Savage, 2005) | p176 | | Sinclair, Fiona J, ed | 1995 | Charles Wilson Architect 1810-1863: A Question of Style | | Glasgow: Park Circus Promotions, 1995 | p23 | | Thomson, David | 1882 | Memoir of Charles Wilson | 13 March 1882 | Proceedings of the Glasgow Philosophical Society | | | Walker, F A | 2000 | Argyll and Bute (The Buildings of Scotland) | | | p483 |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this building: | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes | | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 4699 | | | National Monuments Record of Scotland/NMRS, RCAHMS | Leslie Grahame Thomson MacDougall Collection | | LGM 1950/14/1 | | National Monuments Record of Scotland/NMRS, RCAHMS | Lorimer and Matthew Collection | | LOR I/1
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