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Latitude: 56.3285 / 56°19'42"N
Longitude: -5.5089 / 5°30'32"W
OS Eastings: 183160
OS Northings: 720651
OS Grid: NM831206
Mapcode National: GBR DCSZ.TMG
Mapcode Global: WH0GY.B6YC
Entry Name: Raera Castle
Scheduled Date: 23 December 1977
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4050
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Secular: castle
Location: Kilninver and Kilmelfort
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: Oban North and Lorn
Traditional County: Argyllshire
Mid to later 19th century. 3 polygonal game larders, in garden to rear of Montcoffer House. 2 larders coursed rubble with brick arches, ashlar dressings; raised margins, base course, band course, eaves course and cornice. 1 larder of wood. 4 panelled door to each. Grey slates.
W LARDER: classical style. Doorway with impost course, semi-circular fanlight with keystone, repeated as window above impost course to each elevation, with diamond-pane hoppers. Polygonal roof; wooden louvred ventilator at apex with ogival leaded roof and ball finial. Trelliswork cladding surviving on certain faces.
INTERIOR: lath and plaster. Dated game bag records written on walls.
E LARDER: in Tudor style; hoodmoulded openings. Doorway with letterbox fanlight. 2 windows round-arched timber casements, alternating with blank elevations. Slated polygonal roof with ball finial and ?fox weathervane. Trelliswork cladding as above.
N LARDER: wooden, smaller; doorway with rectangular fanlight. Cornice.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1990.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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