View from ESE Digital image of SU/241/4

Description View from ESE Digital image of SU/241/4

Date 7/1961

Catalogue Number SC 772708

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of SU 241/4

Scope and Content Skibo Castle, Highland, from east-south-east This shows the main entrance elevation of the castle with a covered porch (porte-cochère) in front. The two-storeyed and attic block to the right of the four-storeyed main block contains the dining room on the ground floor. The large tower in the left background has a flagpole flying a flag with a Union Jack on one side and 'Stars & Stripes' on the other. Permission to fly this unusual flag was granted by His Majesty King Edward VII. The family and their guests would have entered the castle through the porte-cochère, which was designed in such a way that anyone dismounting from a carriage was sheltered from the weather. The servants would enter the castle only via an entrance at the side of the two-storeyed and attic block on the right (concealed by a tree) which contained the main service rooms. Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) was born in Scotland and made a fortune in the steel industry in the United States of America. Once his daughter was born he decided that she should have a Scottish home, and at the end of the 19th century he bought a large Baronial house at Skibo built in 1880 by Clarke & Bell. In addition to the £85,000 purchase price, he spent a further £2 million in the creation of an even larger mansion, constructed between 1899 and 1903 to the designs of Ross & Macbeth. In 1981 his daughter Margaret decided to sell the estate, and the castle lay empty until 1990 when Peter de Savary paid £10 million for the castle and the 2,832-hectare estate. Some £30 million was then invested in its transformation into the Carnegie Club, a private residential golf and sporting club. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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