Skye, Dunvegan Castle, Stables And Saw Mill

Ancillary buildings include: Laundry Cottage, dated 1734 , long and low with moulded architraves and crowstepped gables, formerly the estate office/factor's house, later the laundry. Stables/coachhouses/steadings, 1811 , a roofless U-plan court in handsome classical style, with pavilioned corners and ends emphasised by great, round-arched recesses, and smart dressings of pale ashlar. The adjacent sawmill retains its old machinery. The Cottage, 19th century addition to earlier core - one time dower house, pretty with latticed mullions, an older, thick-walled dwelling still evident behind its cottagey Tudor front.

Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 208. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk

U-plan stable range with south facing court, and 5 bay west elevation. Coursed rubble with constrasting pale tooled dressings. Paired segmental headed carriage houses to each south gable end of U. Shallow tripartites above. Wide 5 bay west elevation, outer bays slightly advanced with round-headed windows in round arched recesses; blind to SW. Piended slate roof. Saw mill to north side of stables; overshot wheel fed by lade carried on ramp. (Historic Scotland)

A U-plan court in handsome classical style, with pavilioned corners and ends emphasised by great, round-arched recesses, and smart dressings of pale ashlar. The adjacent sawmill retains its old machinery. (M Miers)