Skye, Dunvegan Castle, Laundry
Estate Office (18th Century), House (18th Century), Laundry (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Site Name Skye, Dunvegan Castle, Laundry
Classification Estate Office (18th Century), House (18th Century), Laundry (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Laundry Cottage; Dunvegan Castle Policies; Factor's House
Canmore ID 100547
Site Number NG24NW 7.02
NGR NG 24669 49025
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/100547
- Council Highland
- Parish Duirinish
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
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, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk