What is recorded here
Wester Kames Castle is a four-storey tower near Kames Bay that changed hands twice before Robert Weir Schultz rebuilt it in 1897. A line of brickwork still marks where the old ruin ended and his new stone began. The Spense family lived there first, the Marquess of Bute owned it later, and the narrow stair tower rises half a storey above the main roof like a finger pointing at the Bute sky.
Wester Kames Castle is shown as a castle on the public map of Argyll and Bute. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.
Wester Kames Castle was built by the Campbell family in the 17th century and is remembered as a historic seat of the Clan Campbell in Argyll. Its importance lies in its association with one of Scotland's most influential noble families.
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Places near here
Bute, Wester Kames CastleCastle (16th Century), Tower House (19th Century) - (20th Century) · 4 yd
Kames CastleCastle · 581 yd
Bute, Kames Castle, Gardener's CottageGardeners Lodge (period Unassigned) · 675 yd
Bute, Tigh-an-tudorBuilding (18th Century), Cottage (19th Century) - (20th Century), Kennels (19th Century) - (20th Century), Smallholding (18th Century) · 715 yd
Bute, CranslagmoryFarmstead (period Unassigned), Horse Engine Platform (19th Century) · 995 yd
Bute, Port Bannatyne, Marine Road, Boat Yard and MarinaBoat Yard (20th Century), Marina (20th Century) · 1131 yd
Edinbeg HillMountain / peak · 1191 yd
Bute, St Colmac's ChurchBurial Ground (post Medieval), Church (19th Century) (1835) · 1216 yd
Kames BayBay · 1347 yd
Co-worker: Port Bannatyne QuayMotor Fishing Vessel (20th Century) · 1419 yd
War MemorialMemorial · 1605 yd
Muírton HillMountain / peak · 1.0 miOther information
Photo: Gordon Hatton · CC BY-SA 2.0