General view
SU 193
Description General view
Date 1886
Collection Papers of Erskine Beveridge, antiquarian, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Catalogue Number SU 193
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 746340
Scope and Content Scourie House, Highland Scourie House, a late Georgian house dating from c.1830, stands at the harbour on the edge of Scourie Bay on the west coast of Scotland. The house, said to have been built for the factor of the Duke of Sutherland's estate, was photographed in 1886 by Victorian photographer, Erskine Beveridge. This two-storeyed, three-bayed house is harled and whitewashed with painted margins round the windows. It has a mid-19th-century wing addition to the north-west, and distinctive lozenge-shaped chimney-stacks arranged in pairs on the gables. A large, crowstepped, rubble-built boathouse, which also served as a storehouse, stands by the harbour. Scourie House is surrounded by bleak rugged hills that are home to herds of red deer, and an unusually large number of small isolated hill-lochs rich in brown trout. In the late 19th century the Duke of Sutherland's estate was used for hunting, fishing and shooting, the traditional pastimes of the rich and leisured classes. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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