Inveraray, North Main Street East, Buntons House
House (18th Century)
Site Name Inveraray, North Main Street East, Buntons House
Classification House (18th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Buntain's House
Canmore ID 217798
Site Number NN00NE 114
NGR NN 09634 08468
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/217798
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Inveraray
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
Field Visit (April 1989)
House (N on fig.). The earliest building on the E side of the street, built for Provost Lachlan Campbell in 1767-8. The three-bay 11.8m frontage has openings slightly rounded at the arris, and the nine-panelled door with rectangular fanlight above bears as knocker a 'brass man's hand' of early 19th-century date, well known locally from its mention in Neil Munro's novel The Daft Days (en.6*). The interior of the main house has been completely renovated, but extending E from the S part of the rear wall there is a two-storeyed extension, hip-roofed at the S end, which was probably the addition, equal in height to the main house, that Archibald Bell, writer, proposed to build in 1800 in return for an extension of his lease (en.7). lts upper floor has dressed sandstone surrounds to the large windows, which include a tripartite one in the E end wall, and to the N door at the head of a forestair. The whole upper floor is occupied by a dining-room, measuring 10.7m by 5.lm, with a curved W wall affording additional space for an entrance-lobby and a cupboard which have matching curved doors. The dado and shutters are of pine and there is an original vine-leaf cornice. In the S wall there is a chimneypiece of brown-and-white marble in a black marble frame, with a bead-moulded inner surround.
RCAHMS 1992, visited c. April 1989