Distant view of Steading from north east Digital image of B 7819
SC 742265
Description Distant view of Steading from north east Digital image of B 7819
Date 5/1986
Catalogue Number SC 742265
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 7819
Scope and Content Guisachan, Highland, from north-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 steading from the north-east, with the impressive clock-tower above the entrance to the left, and the dairy in the centre. The farmhouse is to the right of the dairy with some modern farm buildings in front. The steading is 2.5km north-east of Tomich, built as a model village by Lord Tweedmouth to re-house the crofting community. One account says that 'Guisachan Estate, then about 20,000 acres, was bought in 1854 by Edward Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks for £52,000.' His family then owned property near Coldstream and he was often a guest of William Fraser before he bought the estate. He was raised to the peerage in 1866 taking the title of Lord Tweedmouth. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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