Argaty

The present Argaty House dates from the 19th century with baronial additions in the 1860s and 1920s, but was largely destroyed by fire in April 2011.

[1][2] Argaty was originally part of the Doune estate, property of the Dukes of Albany, ancestors of the Clan Stewart of Balquhidder.

[4] Around 150 years later the property was again inherited by a daughter, one Mary Hume, who married George Stewart (also spelled "Steuart") of Ballachallan.

[2] Steuart also held extensive lands in Maryland and, at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War in 1775, he was forced to leave America and return to Scotland, dividing his estates among his family.

Hume's younger brothers Charles and James Steuart, by now citizens of the fledgling United States of America, brought a claim against their infant niece Sophia for the inheritance of Argaty, but were not successful.

[2] Sophia Hume married her cousin, David Monro Binning of Softlaw, a barrister,[6] and by the early Nineteenth century the house and estate were in the possession of the Binning-Home family.

[1] Today Mr Niall Bowser and his wife Lynn run the estate from Lerrocks Farm.