Description

Earlier-mid 19th century; slightly later addition. Single storey and attic, rectangular-plan house. Coursed rubble, harled front and gable, white painted; slate roof. 4-pane sash and case windows to ground floor (one 6-pane to rear), painted margins to front, piended dormers to front with modern 2-pane sash and case glazing. Velux-type rooflights.

Coped, harled end stacks.

FRONT ELEVATION: panelled door at 2nd bay from right with shallow finialled and gabled porch, window to left and right, 2 dormers and rooflight above; window, dormer and rooflight to addition at left. Modern window to right return gable.

REAR ELEVATION: 2 windows to right; modern box dormer to centre,

2 rooflights.

Statement of Interest

This building houses the caretaker's house, administrative centre and tearoom of the Arran Heritage Museum. The building forms an L-plan with the Former School and Smiddy, and with these buildings makes up a B group. The former Pladda lighthouse mechanism and optic is dismantled and stored at the museum. There is a reconstructed horse mill mechanism in the garden to the front of the house.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17830401

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Recommended Books

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)