It’s an extremely long time since I’ve been to Ardtornish where we used to come and stay every summer, driving up from Surrey, staying en route in Dumfriesshire and then sometimes with other cousins at Laudale on Loch Sunart.

I remember it as a touch dour.  In fact, what I remember best are the servants’ bells as one comes in from the back yard:-

This is the house seen from its garden:-

And, more conventionally, it’s south front:-

Pevsner aka John Giffard is not polite. ‘A suburban villa afflicted with elephantiasis’.  ‘A gigantic but indistinguished villa with fastidiously detailed and very cold-blooded rooms worthy of a grand hotel’.

Tomorrow, I will learn more.