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A rare opportunity to explore part of Scotland's military history at the former RAF Machrihanish in Kintyre. The 1000 acre site boasting a 10,000ft…
Machrimore Oatmeal Mill replaced in 1799 an earlier mill dated to 1634. It continued working until c 1960 when in the process of conversion into a…
Fifteen months ago we asked the Edinburgh firm of Simpson and Brown to look at the site of the old Community Hall and design a centre fit for the 21st…
Following the Prisons (Scotland) Act in 1839, the Argyllshire Prison Board was formed to oversee the prisons in Inveraray, Campbeltown and Tobermory.…
New build Police Station on a brownfield site in the centre of Campbeltown, replacing the existing and outdated Victorian police station on…
A lifeboat station was first established at Campbeltown in 1861. The Severn Class lifeboat the Ernest and Mary Shaw came into service in 1999. The…
Originally opened in 1938, but closed nine years later, and reopened again in 1990, Tobermory is a relatively young RNLI station, operating for nearly…
Recently named as one of Scotland?s ten favourite buildings of the last century, Rothesay Pavilion has been?the cultural centre of the island…
Commissioned by Rothesay Harbour Trust in 1899 during Rothesay's hey-day, the gents? lavatory was always intended to impress.The magnificent interior…
From the 13th century or earlier, Tarbert Castle guarded the anchorage in the bay below, and controlled the land link between East and West Lochs. It…
Georgian mansion of 2 storeys and an attic on a sunken basement, in extensive grounds overlooking the sea. Pedimented NW facade, with a late 19C arch.…
Wing added 1903. Interior refurbished after 1989 fire. The seat of justice in Campbeltown for over 100 years, it replaced the old Court House in…
Dedicated to St Blaan, a nephew of St Columba, this is the third church on this site. The slated roof is of Norwegian pine, landed at the nearby Port…
Springbank was established in 1828 and is the oldest independently owned distillery in Scotland - currently in the hands of the great, great grandson…
St Kiaran?s Scottish Episcopal Church was built in 1891 and is a category C listed building. It replaced a previous building of the same name, but…
Gothic chapel replacing earlier building of 1809. Street gable with 3 plain traceried windows divided by pinnacled buttresses. Ogee-hooded entrance…
The Cherry Park farm offices at Inveraray Castle were designed by John Adam for the 3rd Duke of Argyll. When the 5th Duke succeeded in 1771, the…
Built by local builder, Robert Weir and Son, commissioned by 33 founding members in the town and opened on 23rd March 1887 as a businessmen?s social…
Recently upgraded to an A listing. The Picture House is the oldest, purpose-built, continuously operating cinema in Scotland. Designed by prolific…
The Retreat is an early Victorian domestic dwelling built around 1860, located on the Rosneath Peninsula within the Victorian burgh of Cove and…
In 1815 General Keith Macalister began the construction of Torrisdale Castle. He employed the services of James Gillespie Graham, one of Scotland?s…
The factory is holding an open day in association with Doors Open days. It is the only combined Wind Turbine Production and Nacelle Assembly Plant in…
St. Michael and All Angels' Church was designed by Sir Rowan Anderson, a pupil of Sir Gilbert Scott, and dedicated in 1868, its dedication recalling…
Long Croft?is a catagory A, National Monuments house, built in 1901-1902 by a husband and wife couple, Alexander Paterson and Maggie Hamilton.?Husband…
Visit Wind Towers for a fascinating insight into one of Scotland’s newest industries. This world class manufacturing site at Machrihanish…
Generally regarded as one of the finest Masonic premises anywhere in Scotland, "292" as it is popularly known opened in late 1909, although the roots…
There has been a church on the same site for over 365 years, the parish initially extending from Garelochhead to Cardross. The current building is the…
?Arguably Scotland's most significant modernist building, St Peter's was designed by Andy MacMillan and Isi Metzstein of Gillespie, Kidd and Coia and…
The present building was completed in 1796, and extensively altered in 1906. The sanctuary with pitch pine dado, now runs east to west, with painted…
The Hill? House on Upper Colquhoun Street, Helensburgh was designed 1902 ? 1904, by Scotland?s world famous architect, Charles Rennie Mackintosh as a…
Open Doors Day provides a rare opportunity to see the unique medieval chapel in Cardross. In a peaceful rural setting, on a hillside overlooking the…
The ROC underground monitoring post at Stravanan Bay on Bute formed part of a chain of some 865 monitoring posts throughout the United Kingdom from…
Ardenvohr is a large and well-detailed example of a grand mid 19th century baronial villa. It was built by local architect Thomas Gildard for Daniel…
Clarendon, or Torwood Villa as it was originally named, was built in the mid 19th century. The two extensions you can see on either side of the…
A medieval church existed in Cardross since 1226 and in 1329 the body of Robert the Bruce was brought there, before its burial in Dunfermline Abbey. A…
Helensburgh Parish Church is located in Colquhoun Square in the centre of Helensburgh.The present building was erected in 1853 at a cost of 4,500 to…
Brantwoode is a Category A listed building, which was built in 1895 by the architect William Leiper. It follows the Old English style popularised by…
Strathleven House is a category A-listed Palladian mansion located on the outskirts of Dumbarton. Surrounded by scenic woodland, it is part of the…
The Mackintosh Club, in Helensburgh is the newly discovered Charles Rennie Mackintosh hidden gem. The Gallery is open 11-3 and features a permanent…
The partially-renovated B-listed Dunans Castle, and Thomas Telford's A-listed Dunans Bridge, are the centre-pieces in a uniquely designed landscape…
Helensburgh?s former Clyde Street School was transformed into a stateof-the-art facility on behalf of Argyll and Bute Council. The Clyde Street School…
Dunoon Burgh Hall is grade B listed and dates from 1874. Following a ?1.9million refurbishment, the Burgh Hall re-opened in June 2017 as a community…
The Argyll Papers are the family and estate archive of the Campbell family, dukes of Argyll. One of the most important private archives in Britain, it…
THE roots of Helensburgh's now closed St Columba Church sprang from a group of Dissenters who met fortnightly in the Baths Hotel for Sunday worship,…
Completed in 1802, the building housed two churches under the one roof, the south end for Gaelic speakers and the north end for those who only spoke…
The building was the final one to be built in the new town in Inveraray and is an 'A' Listed Building. It is a beautiful church building inside.…
As part of Doors Open Day Cowal Open Studios offers? 43 venues which? will be open to the public featuring the work of eminent local artists and…
The Scottish Ecological Design (sponsored by the Glasgow Institute of Architects) held their annual Ecological Cycling and Walking tour this year…
This small stone fronted church building was designed in 1956 by Margaret Brodie who worked on the Glasgow Empire Exhibition. The building is a…
Historic Kilmun describes the visitor centre within St Munns church, the Argyll Mausoleum, the collegiate tower and surrounding ancient graveyard.…
The Castle House Museum is set in stunning and well maintained gardens atop a hillside opposite the Gourock-Dunoon ferry terminal.? The Museum tells…
The first Dunoon Pier appeared in 1835. The pier was enlarged and a new waiting room constructed in 1867 to cater for the growth of paddle-steamer…
The original Queen's Hall Pavilion was constructed around 1905 by William Fraser Architect, who lived in Dunoon from 1898 to 1907.? The existing…
This is a sandstone built Church with square tower. The interior is finished sandstone with quotations etched into the sandstone.The Architect is Me…
The present church is located in very beautiful surroundings between Dunoon and Kirn, near the seafront, with accommodation for 700 people. It is…
The present building probably stands on the site of a much earlier church which until 1688 was the Cathedral Church of both the Roman Catholic and…
A church graveyard, ruined tower and mausoleum. The history of Scotland in a small country village. From royalty to traitors, from the first woman…
Formerly Macphersons Impreial Tea Room and Restaurant. The business closed a number of years ago and has remained vacant ever since. The interior is…
Meet Robert Bryden, architect of Dunoon Burgh Hall, St John's Church and other local buildings. The People of Place is a new archive and marketing…
Artist and steel furniture maker David Roman invites you into his wonderfully recreated new home. This is a great opportunity to see how his creative…
New building by Taylor Associates, 2011, on Ayrshire College Ayr Campus offering state of the art facilities for the tranining of students in…
Campbell Douglas, 1857-58, additions 1877, 1890. Gothic-style.?Twenty stained glass windows give a mini history of the art from 1858 to the present…
David Thomson, 1875, in Early English style, recently restored. Notable stained glass by Clayton & Bell, L C Evetts, Crucifixion by J E W Guthrie,…
Category A church designed by Jack Coia and T Wharnett Kennedy, 1938, in red and yellow brick with red tiled roof and a simple, impressive…
Built 1858, eleven years after Ardrossan became a burgh, and used as town hall until 1946 when the Council and local Masonic Lodge St John RA No. 320…
A wonderful opportunity to visit a home where energy saving measures have been retro fitted, and discuss the pros and cons with the occupiers.?
Built c.1760 by Lord Auchinleck, and inherited by his son James Boswell, biographer of Dr Johnson. Johnson visited the house in 1773. It is a fine…
Established 75 years ago when local authority secured land from Miss Campbell of Craigie House. ?The allotments have proved to be a popular local…
One of Ayr's most beautiful rooms, the Art Department of Ayr Academy. The stunning Art Department was designed by a local architect in the style of…
Built in 1817 as the Theatre Royal, later Queens Rooms Theatre. Used as Baptist Church since 1880. Now a modern multi-purpose centre and Church with…
Built on the site of Content House, to replace station in Sandgate. One of the biggest fire stations in Scotland with the longest pole-drop. Recent…
Built in 1832 as a Reformed Presbyterian (Cameronian) Church, it is the second oldest church in use in Ayr. The sword on the main gate recalls the…
The Gaiety Theatre, designed by local architect J McHardy Young, was built in 1902. This category B listed building closed in 2009, and after a huge…
Robert Wallace, 1818-22. Purpose built classical courthouse with majestic four-columned ionic portico. Refurbished to provide two large jury courts,…
Neo-classical landmark. High five-staged steeple with channelled columns and pedimented doorway, ornamented with Doric columns, urns and gryphons…
Opened in 1888 with a challenge match between Ayr FC and Aston Villa, FA cup winners 1887.? Ayr won 3-0.? Ayr FC and Ayr Parkhouse amalgamated in…
On seafront, but access from Craigweil Road off Blackburn Road. One of a group of Scottish Baronial villas which adorn the southern edge of the Low…
Theophilus Rankine 1654. Successor church to mediaeval St John's (at Bruce Crescent). Cromwellian Government contributed 1,000 merks towards the cost…
Original constructed 1879 for foundry owner William Smith Dixon, rebuilt by Mackenzie & Moncur, now vandalised. The charity Belleisle Conservatory…
Funded with £10,000 from Andrew Carnegie. Impressive Renaissance-style red sandstone front with decorative wall tiling in entrance. Splendid…
Built on the site of Ayr Prison, County Buildings is now the headquarters of South Ayrshire Council. See the attractive woodwork and impressive…
The building designed by WIlliam Cowie and Torry as a parish church and completed in 1957, was elevated to Cathedral status in 1961. Following its…
John Loughborough Pearson, 1898. Category A listed, 13th century Gothic in style. His designs for tower and steeple were abandoned and a truncated…
Comfortable dwelling of James Tait, merchant who traded with Europe, first recorded in late 15th century. Purchased in 16th century as the town house…
Lodge St James Newton on Ayr consecrated 1771 and moved here to former Newnham School for Girls in 1931.See Souter Johnnie?s Masonic Apron and other…
Original 1760s classical mansion, home to generations of the Hamilton family, extended in 1830s by David Bryce in the Italianite style, converted to…
Perpendicular Gothic by John B Wilson in red sandstone, 1893 withlandmark 146 ft spire. Hall built in 1897 by William McClelland, extended in 1963 and…
Opened 1827, the first Catholic Church in Ayrshire since the Reformation. Refurbished 1999-2000. Became the Cathedral Church of the Diocese of…
Remaining part of the original parish church of Ayr. The church, in its time the largest in Ayrshire, was cruciform in shape and the tower was perhaps…
New Ayr Campus opened 2011 providing state-of-the-art facilities for the teaching of Education, Health, Creative Industries and Land-based Studies.…
One of the few privately owned Bridge venues in Scotland. Seven clubs use the venue during the week.?
The Ayrshire Hospice has been providing specialist palliative and end of life care across the Ayrshire community for 30 years. Come and hear about the…
The 17th centurythatched cottage where Robert Burns and his friends formed a literary and debating society in 1780. Restored for the Burns…
The Barony Colliery in Auchinleck was the last deep mine in Ayrshire. After closure, all that remained was the 'A' Frame, a unique and…
First mentioned in 1127, with an almost unbroken list of incumbents since 1361. Tower built 1490; Aisle built 1597 and Crawford Gallery 1642 with its…
Architects Black & Salmon of Glasgow, 1844. Organ installed 1889. Fine stained glass. Now church for congregation of Barony St John's formed following…
Vale Grove and Vale View (Beechgrove) Gardens created by the Barrmill Conservation Group, the Barrmill & District Community Association and other…