Lost Dunoon

Black Street cottages

The homes cleared for a new elite landscape.

A group of houses on Black Street disappeared when Castle House was developed, making them a clear example of one Dunoon landscape replacing another.

What it was

Before Castle House reshaped the hill, Black Street held modest housing within the older town pattern.

What was lost

A small residential cluster and the social geography it represented.

What remains now

Only the historical record and the ability to point out that an elegant landscape was built over an earlier lived-in one.

Research leads

This page would benefit from estate documentation, early plans, and any tax or valuation references.

Memory prompt: Were any older place-names or stories attached to Black Street in your family?