General view from west Digital image of IN 1617

Description General view from west Digital image of IN 1617

Date 1972

Catalogue Number SC 742269

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of IN 1617

Scope and Content Dairy, Guisachan, Highland, from 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 former dairy, from the west, built of grey rubble with contrasting tooled ashlar dressings. The dairy is situated to the north-west of the main steading and was built in 1876 by A & W Reid. It has two attractive verandahs supported by four rustic timber columns. The three small round-headed windows above the slated canopy and the three larger round-headed windows on the north-west wall make the building appear almost chapel-like. The other side of the building has a door into the dwelling part of the dairy. As part of nearby Tomich, Lord Tweedmouth also built a laundry, a brewery, a meal mill, a school, kennels, stables for riding horses and houses, each purpose-built for the occupier with number of bedrooms and size of rooms relating to the status of the tenant. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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