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Nether Ross Farmhouse

A Category C Listed Building in Luss, Argyll and Bute

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.0313 / 56°1'52"N

Longitude: -4.6377 / 4°38'15"W

OS Eastings: 235738

OS Northings: 685185

OS Grid: NS357851

Mapcode National: GBR 0J.S23B

Mapcode Global: WH2LZ.QNRP

Plus Code: 9C8Q29J6+GW

Entry Name: Nether Ross Farmhouse

Listing Name: Nether Ross

Listing Date: 13 March 1997

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 390656

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43989

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200390656

Location: Luss

County: Argyll and Bute

Electoral Ward: Helensburgh and Lomond South

Parish: Luss

Traditional County: Dunbartonshire

Tagged with: Farmhouse

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Description

Dated 1863. 2-storey, 3-bay rectangular-plan gabled house; gothick detailing. Stugged squared and snecked sandstone rubble, polished margins and dressings; advanced bracketed eaves. Pointed arch windows, originally with gothick glazing.

NE (MAIN) ELEVATION: advanced gabled bay to outer right; bipartite windows at ground, pointed-arch bipartites at 1st floor. Small gabled off-set porch in re-entrant angle to right; modern door; Y-tracery pointed-arch fanlight; plaque above inscribed "Built by Sir James Colquhoun Bart Lord Lieut. of Dumbarton, 1863". Gabled bay to right, bipartite at ground, single pointed arch, traceried window at 1st floor.

S ELEVATION: broad gabled bay to outer right; bipartite at ground, broad pointed arch, traceried window at 1st floor. Modern wooden and glass gabled porch to left.

Plate glass and Y-traceried, timber sash and case windows. Graded grey slate roof, lead flashings; coped ashlar ridge stacks, octagonal cans.

Statement of Interest

The house is one of a number of estate farms built by Sir James Colquhoun in the 1860s. The steadings have been altered.

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