Skye, Dunvegan, The Cottage
Dower House (19th Century)
Site Name Skye, Dunvegan, The Cottage
Classification Dower House (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Dower House; Dunvegan Castle Policies
Canmore ID 10814
Site Number NG24NW 13
NGR NG 24700 49616
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/10814
- 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
NG24NW 13 24700 49616
For Dunvegan Castle (NG 24740 49106) and associated buildings, see NG24NW 7.00.
