What is recorded here

Beehive Cottage stands as a nineteenth-century gamekeepers house within the Inveraray Castle Estate, Argyll and Bute. Its small size and hidden location suggest a life of watching rather than being watched, where arrows flew past windows and patience was the main tool. The estate owned the land and the cottage served that ownership, but the keeper likely knew every animal, storm and footstep better than any lord.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Inveraray Castle Estate, Beehive Cottage as Gamekeepers House (19th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Beehive Cottage was part of the Inveraray Castle Estate, held by the Campbell family, 19th Century. It is remembered as a gamekeeper's house, reflecting estate management practices of the Scottish landed gentry.

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