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Dunalastair

Country House (19th Century)

Site Name Dunalastair

Classification Country House (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Dunalastair House Estate; Dunalastair House Policies

Canmore ID 25091

Site Number NN75NW 16

NGR NN 71047 58858

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Perth And Kinross
  • Parish Fortingall
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District Perth And Kinross
  • Former County Perthshire

Architecture Notes

NN75NW 16.00 71047 58858

NN75NW 16.01 72717 59235 East Lodge

NN75NW 16.02 71188 59403 North Lodge

NN75NW 16.03 70777 58729 Burial Ground

NN75NW 16.04 70827 58668 Burial Enclosure and Tomb

NN75NW 16.05 70979 58768 Burial Ground

NN75NW 16.06 70883 58956 Stables

NN75NW 16.07 71202 59650 Home Farm

NN75NW 16.08 71170 59696 Rose Cottage

NN75NW 16.09 71282 59115 Sawmill

NN75NW 16.10 70897 58565 Bridge

Site Management (18 June 1990)

2-storey, square-plan Baronial mansion with 3-stage circular entrance tower, now roofless (1996). Square rubble with ashlar dressings. Roll-moulded surrounds. Dividing string course; moulded eaves course. Glazing removed. Evidence of some internal panelled shutters. Previously with grey slates (roof now collapsed). Decorative, billeted coping to diamond stacks. Wrought-iron finials to gableheads and conical roofs.

The estate was formerly known as Mount Alexander. An earlier house was illustrated in Neale's Seats, but only the foundations of this remain at a different site. Heiton was the second of a dynasty of 3 generations: after training with his father, he spent time in the office of Burn and Bryce between 1842 and 1848, from whence he evidently acquired experience with Baronial design, leaving to provide a host of fine, imaginative compositions which stand up well in comparison with those of David Bryce. He is known for such masterpieces as Atholl Palace Hotel and Vogrie House, Midlothian. (Historic Scotland)

The house was vacated in 1952, after having housed a school for Polish refugees.

Activities

Photographic Survey (June 1964)

Photographic survey by the Scottish National Buildings Record in June 1964.

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