Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

FINNART, ARROCHAR ROAD, GLENMALLEN HOUSE, STABLES AND GATEPIERSLB14442

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
18/03/1994
Local Authority
Argyll And Bute
Planning Authority
Argyll And Bute
Parish
Rhu
NGR
NS 24970 96207
Coordinates
224970, 696207

Description

Early to earlier 19th century. 2-storey, 3-bay block with single storey additions; symmetrical, rectangular-plan. Rubble with polished red sandstone dressings; white- painted harl at rear. Base course; quoin strips; eaves band and cornice.

W (MAIN) ELEVATION: 2-storey, 3-bay main block with single storey pavilion bays recessed to outer left and right. Door at centre, polished sandstone pilastered and corniced doorpiece; 2 steps to flush 9-panelled door, upper 6 panels now glazed, rectangular, border-glazed fanlight. Windows symmetrically disposed. Single storey bays recessed to outer left and right; left bay with window at centre, block to outer right similar but with window altered as door.

E ELEVATION: stair window at centre of main block, 18-pane sash and case window; windows symmetrically disposed in bays to left and right. Block to outer right with modern timber door and window; block to outer left blank.

N AND S ELEVATIONS: timber, square dormers raised on either side of wallhead stack at centre; slate-hung.

4-pane sash and case windows. Grey slate piend and platform roof; tall rectangular, corniced wallhead stacks; stop-chamfered, ashlar arrises.

INTERIOR: not seen 1993.

STABLES: located to W of house. 2-storey, 5-bay, long, rectangular-plan stable block. White-painted harl with sandstone margins and dressings. Quoin strips; eaves band.

S ELEVATION: door off-centre to right; boarded with 2-pane letterbox fanlight; door to right with window to outer right; 3 windows to left of main door, that immediately to left modern. Window placed directly under eaves to outer right and left; square opening above penultimate right and left bays.

W AND E ELEVATIONS: window and door at ground.

12-pane sash and case windows at 1st floor; replacement glass for other windows. Slate roof, piended at left side and gabled to right; rooflight; small, coped, sandstone polygonal apex stack.

GATEPIERS: pair of polished, red sandstone gatepiers with pyramidal heads. Rubble wall with semicircular coping.

Statement of Special Interest

Glenmallon House was reputedly built for the mistress of Lord Colquhoun of Luss in the 1820s. The lodge to Glenmallon House located immediately to left of gates has been considerably altered.

References

Bibliography

OS 1st edition map, 1865.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

The legal part of the listing is the address/name of site which is known as the statutory address. Other than the name or address of a listed building, further details are provided for information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland does not accept any liability for any loss or damage suffered as a consequence of inaccuracies in the information provided. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing. Even if a number or name is missing from a listing address it will still be listed. Listing covers both the exterior and the interior and any object or structure fixed to the building. Listing also applies to buildings or structures not physically attached but which are part of the curtilage (or land) of the listed building as long as they were erected before 1 July 1948.

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