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Latitude: 55.9483 / 55°56'53"N
Longitude: -4.9268 / 4°55'36"W
OS Eastings: 217338
OS Northings: 676670
OS Grid: NS173766
Mapcode National: GBR 05.Y94Q
Mapcode Global: WH2M7.9R4C
Plus Code: 9C7QW3XF+87
Entry Name: Milton House, Milton Avenue, Dunoon
Listing Name: Milton House (District Council Offices)
Listing Date: 21 March 1990
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 363079
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26451
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dunoon, Milton Avenue, Milton House
ID on this website: 200363079
Location: Dunoon
County: Argyll and Bute
Town: Dunoon
Electoral Ward: Dunoon
Traditional County: Argyllshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Style of David Hamilton, circa 1842. Two-storey villa in
Hamilton's own Tudoresque style, lower service wing to north;
now offices. Harled, with ashlar margins, dressings, and
chamfered ingoes: mostly hood-moulded openings; mostly
original horizontal glazing pattern (sashes); gables
crowstepped or with saw-toothed skews. Three-bay west (main
entrance) elevation 3 bays, advanced gable right with canted
ground floor window, crenellated porch in re-entrant angle,
wall-head gable to left, single window beyond, in upper
level of wing. South elevation is symmetrical, 3 finialled
and gabled window bays, the outer slightly advanced, shallow
central porch with door now a window. Tall, east-facing stair
window. Stacks have square flues linked by cornice, some cut
down. Slated roofs. Inside, ornament is classical, principal
rooms have decorative cornice plasterwork, chimney pieces
also decorative, cast-iron stair balusters a common pattern.
Milton estate passed in 1815 to John Moir of Hillfoot,
Dollar, subsequently John MacArthur-Moir.
The 1842 work may incorporate an existing house. Some service
wings demolished in recent years.
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