Rosneath House

The house was of note as both the home of Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll and as the military base where Operation Torch was planned.

[1] In 1490 Rosneath Castle was gifted by King James IV to Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll.

When his brother, Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, visited the property in 1744 he found it an empty shell and decided to rescue the structure.

[1] The Duke decided to rebuild the property further inland than the original castle, on a flatter plateau, enabling a far larger and more formal mansion, as was the fashion of the day.

Bonomi before his death added an optimistic plaque, describing the project as the "Lornian Palace".

The house's strategic location brought a temporary reprieve and the building was occupied by military forces as a command centre, and was the location of the important meeting between Churchill, Eisenhower and Montgomery to negotiate Operation Torch: the invasion of North Africa.

[4][5] After the war its scenic location brought about its use as a caravan park but the house itself was left to decay, and worries of children playing in the derelict structure caused its demolition in 1961.