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Latitude: 56.6384 / 56°38'18"N
Longitude: -5.2823 / 5°16'56"W
OS Eastings: 198810
OS Northings: 754432
OS Grid: NM988544
Mapcode National: GBR FCB5.H5W
Mapcode Global: WH1GM.TDST
Plus Code: 9C8PJPQ9+83
Entry Name: Achara House
Listing Name: Achara House (By Duror)
Listing Date: 28 August 1980
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 338602
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB6880
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200338602
Location: Lismore and Appin
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Fort William and Ardnamurchan
Parish: Lismore And Appin
Traditional County: Argyllshire
Tagged with: House
Circa 1900, incorporating 19th century baronial dwelling.
Tall 3-storey, NW facing 4-bay house. All harled with
extensive tooled ashlar dressings and margins. Main entrance
in single storey, projecting bowed porch in return SW
elevation, with bowed piended slate roof and entrance door
approached by shallow flight of steps. 3 renewed crests and
insignia frame doorway.
NW garden front with shallow, wide mullioned and transomed
bay window; paired mullioned and transomed bipartites.
Regular 1st floor fenestration; 4 dormers break 2nd floor
wallhead into shaped or triangular polished ashlar pediments
each with carved insignia. Mid-later 19th century angle
bartizans frame front elevation, corbelled out at 2nd storey
angles with conical bellcast slated roofs and leaded finials.
Multi-pane glazing; crowsteps; coped end and ridge stacks;
slate roofs.
Built for Charles Stewart of Achara on site of earlier house.
Alteratins of c.1900 said to have been designed by Sir
Robert Lorimer.
Various outbuildings converted to dwellings and garage
in vicinity of house not included in listing 1930's photograph
show more extensive service range, now demolished.
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