Conaglen

 

 

 

 

Conaglen Estate extends to over 40,000 acres of breathtaking Scottish West Coast scenery and encapsulates the traditional images of a Highland Estate.

The Estate offers a wide range of facilities and the principal property, Conaglen House enjoys all of the charm of a traditional Highland Lodge, with the anticipated high standards of interior decoration, facilities and furnishings.

The Estate provides an ideal location for a family or sporting holiday, corporate entertainment or even a remarkable wedding venue.

The Estate is located 13 miles from Fort William, 88 miles from Inverness Airport and 95 miles from Glasgow Airport.

The Conaglen estate was purchased from the Macleans of Ardgour (The Douglas Archives compiler's maternal family) by the 18th Earl of Morton  (The compilers paternal family) after the death of Alexander, 13th of Ardgour in 1858. It is currently owned by the Guthrie family.

 

The Loddington,  Leicestershire, estate was also acquired at about the same time, probably for sporting purposes.

 

Inverscadle House, a tacksman’s house for the MacLean’s, fragments of which have recently been discovered in the kitchen wing, was largely replaced by an 1862 structure (a shooting house) called Conaglen House, by architect David Bryce, located at the juncture of Glens Cona and Scaddle, where their waters run into Inverscaddle Bay. The principal feature of its main block being Bryce's trademark full-height canted bay, crisply corbelled out to form a crowstepped gable. Extensive lower ranges included a smoking room extension to the north west, c.1920.  Detached is a service block with central arched pend, which looks to be earlier.

 

An Episcopal Chapel was added to Conaglen House in in that year. This was subsequently de-consecrated, and a several of the artefacts were removed to Ardgour Parish Church, including a war memorial, which lists family names.

 

 

Whilst the 19th Earl of Morton lived in Conaglen House, his son, William, lived in Stroanreagan, now demolished, and his son Ronald and his wife Alexandra were recorded as living in 'No1 Hut, Conaglen'

 

'Fardy at Conaglen, 1911' - thought to be the 19th Earl.	Conaglen House interior	Conaglen

 

 

 

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