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  Ascog House | Collegehill House | Culloden Tower | Manor Farm | Whiteford Temple 
Exterior and interior photos of Ascog
House
Ascog House, Isle of ButeSeen from the front, the house’s main rooms are on the first floor, reached by a wide turnpike stair. Go round behind and the rise of the ground brings them level with the garden. Inside, the arrangement of the rooms is new but there are old fireplaces, including in the kitchen a noble fragment of a magnificent carved chimney piece from an early stage in the building’s history. Most of the windows were enlarged in the usual fashion of the eighteenth century, set in deep embrasures. Those on the west look out over the old kitchen garden to the wooded hill behind, while those on the east overlook the rediscovered paths and terraces of a late Victorian formal garden, thought to have been designed by Edward Latrobe-Bateman. The best view of all is from the cap house, the tiny perfect bedroom in the top of the stair turret.
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There
is another twin bedroom and bathroom in Tom’s Tower, 20
feet from the main house and seen on the right in the top photograph. 
