Ardchattan House, listed category B, dates from before 1600 when it was first altered from the abbey buildings to form a house.
The priory was secularised towards the end of the 16th century and passed into the hands of the Campbells who converted the south range of the conventual buildings into a private dwelling house, and the choir and transepts of the church were used for parochial worship.
The monastic church fell into disuse, except for the purpose of burial, following the erection of a new parish church in 1731-2.
A Victorian Wing was added in 1852 by the Glasgow architect Charles Wilson.
Numerous minor alternations have been carried out since
The Dairy was built c.1850 in a rustic style and has recently been converted into a cottage.1
1871
A large and handsome modern edifice, the mansion house of the owner of the estate of Ardchattan.
It is situate about 1½ miles east of the Church and is erected on part of what was once the priory.
In the erection of this house - or rather in digging the foundation for it - a great number of bones were unearthed. they were taken in Cartloads to the adjacent coast, & a large hole dug in the sand into which they were deposited.
There is a fine garden attached to the house and a good piece of ornamental ground.2
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