Castle House is situated in the Scottish town of

Dunoon Dunoon (; ) is the main town on the Cowal peninsula in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It is located on the western shore of the upper Firth of Clyde, to the south of the Holy Loch and to the north of Innellan. As well as forming part of the cou ...

Argyll and Bute Argyll and Bute (; , ) is one of 32 unitary authority, unitary council areas of Scotland, council areas in Scotland and a lieutenancy areas of Scotland, lieutenancy area. The current lord-lieutenant for Argyll and Bute is Jane Margaret MacLeod ...

. It sits on top of a

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called Castle Hill, between West Bay and East Bay, overlooking

Dunoon Pier Dunoon Pier is a Victorian era, Victorian pier in Dunoon, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It is owned by Argyll and Bute Council, and was completed in its current form in 1898. Reaching out into the Firth of Clyde, the earliest parts of the pier date ...

and the

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. It was built in 1822, and designed by David Hamilton. It is a Category B listed structure.Castle House, Castle Gardens
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The house was built for James Ewing of Strathleven. Ewing was a merchant and slave owner and was described by biographer Stephen Mullen as "among the most financially successful of lasgow'sélite nineteenth-century sugar/slavery aristocracy". He used the profits from his business to buy and establish property across London. The house was designed by architect David Hamilton who also designed

Castle Toward Castle Toward () is a nineteenth-century country house in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Built in 1820 by Glasgow merchant Kirkman Finlay, it replaced the late medieval Toward Castle, formerly the ancestral home of the Clan Lamont. It was grea ...

and Hutchesons' Hospital. Dunoon Town Council purchased the house, for £4,600,''Surveyor''
Volume 33 (1908), p. 801 in 1893 and used it to house the Council Chamber and Tulloch Free Library. The flag post on Castle Hill marks the original site of a 13th-century

Dunoon Castle Dunoon Castle is a ruined castle in Dunoon, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. The castle sat upon a cone-shaped hill about high. Very little remains of the castle's structure today. Castle House, Dunoon, Castle House, built in 1822, stands a few yard ...

Current use

The building has been home to Castle House Museum since 1998. It is run by Dunoon & Cowal Heritage Trust.About Us
– Castle House Museum official website

Gallery

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ferry departing

, viewed from the museum

References

External links

Castle House Museum
– located in Castle House Castles in Argyll and Bute Category B listed buildings in Argyll and Bute Listed castles in Scotland Listed buildings in Dunoon 1822 establishments in Scotland {{castle-stub