View from north west
B 7805
Description View from north west
Date 5/1986
Catalogue Number B 7805
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 742248
Scope and Content 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 shows the outside of the courtyard from the north-west with the pony stable and loose boxes in the middle section. This part of the building is now a swimming pool, changing rooms and games area for the holidaymakers who are renting the cottages nearby. In 1938 Guisachan House was rented out as the first 'Keep Fit Summer School' in Britain. The estate was sold in 1966 to Colonel James Fraser, MC, a direct descendant of the Frasers of Leckmelm and Balnain who were descended from the Frasers of Culbokie. Guisachan is now run by Colonel Fraser's son, Donald. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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