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Glenmorvern Cottage

A Category B Listed Building in Fort William and Ardnamurchan, Highland

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.5925 / 56°35'32"N

Longitude: -5.9653 / 5°57'55"W

OS Eastings: 156657

OS Northings: 751542

OS Grid: NM566515

Mapcode National: GBR CCN9.8D4

Mapcode Global: WGZD7.BKMH

Plus Code: 9C8PH2RM+XV

Entry Name: Glenmorvern Cottage

Listing Name: "Glenmorvern Cottage" and Walled Garden

Listing Date: 29 May 1985

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 347167

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB13940

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200347167

Location: Morvern

County: Highland

Electoral Ward: Fort William and Ardnamurchan

Parish: Morvern

Traditional County: Argyllshire

Tagged with: Cottage

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Description

House: later 19th century, symmetrical 2-storey, 5-bay house
with rear wing. Painted, weatherboarded house on brick
foundations with contrasting painted architraves; SW front
masked at ground floor by continuous decorative cast-iron
partially glazed verandah. Centre door; longer ground floor
windows than in 1st floor; centre ground and 1st floor window
in SE return gable, and in NW with paired diminutive 1st
floor fenestration. Moulded wooden architraves; 12-pane
glazing; some external window shutters; paired centre ridge
stacks with original decorative coped cans; shallow piended
slate roof.
2-storey, 2-bay rear wing, earlier 19th century house; harled
with centre ridge stack and piended slate roof.
Walled garden; earlier 19th century walled garden on SW
sloping site; coped rubble walls, higher at rear and rounded
to front. NE face of rear wall filled by continuous lean-to
range of bothies, some with windows and with door to garden,
terminating with single storey, 3-bay cottage with end stacks
and slate roof.

Statement of Interest

Glenmorvern estate bought in 1824 from Argyll Estates by Miss

Christina Stewart of Edinburgh; rear cottage wing probably

that completed by 1841. Unusual wall cladding for Highland

Scotland.

Single storey and attic, gardener's 2-bay cottage in grounds

to rear of main house not included in listing.

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