View of courtyard from north west
B 7804
Description View of courtyard from north west
Date 5/1986
Catalogue Number B 7804
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 742241
Scope and Content Courtyard, Guisachan, Highland, from north-west Dating from 1860, this huge courtyard steading was designed by A & W Reid & Mackenzie for Lord Tweedmouth who bought Guisachan estate from William Fraser of Culbokie in 1854. Guisachan House is now a ruin, but the farm, which includes a picturesque dairy, and the model village of Tomich, are still standing. This is the courtyard seen from the north-west, showing the stables (right) and cart bays (left). The function of each part of the building is inscribed on the door lintels, a very unusual feature. The courtyard may incorporate some work of 1850 by James Ross. Lord Tweedmouth was responsible for introducing a new breed of dog, the Golden Retriever. In 1868 he mated a yellow wavy-coated retriever, called Nous, which he had bought from a cobbler in Brighton and was bred by Lord Chichester, to a Tweed water spaniel, Belle, from Ladykirk on the Tweed. He built a lavish kennel house at Guisachan to house his many dogs. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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