View of Engine House from south south east Digital image of B 7806
SC 742017
Description View of Engine House from south south east Digital image of B 7806
Date 5/1986
Catalogue Number SC 742017
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 7806
Scope and Content Engine house, Guisachan, Highland, from south-south-east 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 engine house from south-south-east abutting the south elevation of the main steading. It is now used as a general storage space. In 1995 parts of the steading were converted to holiday accommodation and other recreational uses, including a swimming pool, but this building remains unchanged. Lord Tweedmouth demolished the crofts of the local community when he bought the estate and built them a model village, but in her book 'We Twa', his daughter, Ishbel, describes how the old women used to 'wind their way up from the tidy, slate roofed, stone cottages in the new village to the tumbledown ruins of the old chimneyless cottages with earthen floors, tiny windows, and loose stone walls, and there join in a dirge of lamentations for the past.' Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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