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Canna House, Canna

A Category B Listed Building in Caol and Mallaig, Highland

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.0598 / 57°3'35"N

Longitude: -6.4972 / 6°29'49"W

OS Eastings: 127448

OS Northings: 805512

OS Grid: NG274055

Mapcode National: GBR BBB1.YM9

Mapcode Global: WGY8J.5TC8

Plus Code: 9C9M3G53+W4

Entry Name: Canna House, Canna

Listing Name: Isle of Canna, Canna House

Listing Date: 29 May 1985

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 347413

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB14128

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Canna, Canna House

ID on this website: 200347413

Location: Small Isles

County: Highland

Electoral Ward: Caol and Mallaig

Parish: Small Isles

Traditional County: Argyllshire

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Description

Circa 1860 probably incorporating earlier house. 2-storey and attic, wide 3-bay house with symmetrical south facing frontage and long, slightly lower 2-storey rear wing forming L-plan court at NW. Coursed dark squared rubble frontage, harl pointed rubble flanks and rear; contrasting tooled and polished ashlar dressings. Centre door approached by short flight steps and masked by single storey square porch with corniced blocking course and side windows, flanked by canted bay windows with similar blocking courses. Regular 4-window 1st floor fenestration under shallow pediment extending full length of wallhead

terminating with end ball finials. Long and short detailing to angle margins and 1st floor windows; single canted dormers. Regular 2-bay return east and west gables, at west masked at ground floor by later single-storey corrugated-iron billard room with round-headed detailing to glazing of large windows.

Centre year stair window; lying pane glazing; paired centre corniced stacks; piended slate roof.

Interior: entrance hall with bracketted beams and plaster cornices; staircase at rear with decorative cast-iron balusters. Former drawing room right (now dining room) with plain white marble chimney piece and decorative ceiling cornice. Former dining room left (now drawing room) with similar, but black, marble chimney piece and with egg and dart cornice to ceiling.

Statement of Interest

Built by Donald Maclean; reputedly designed by his sister Jean.

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