View of steading cottages from North Northeast Digital image of D/31727

Description View of steading cottages from North Northeast Digital image of D/31727

Date 11/5/1998

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 757545

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 31727

Scope and Content Cottages, Steading, Cluny Castle, Highland, from north-north-east This shows a row of single-storeyed cottages where farm labourers and their families, who worked on the estate, lived. The blocked-up entrance on the right indicates that two cottages have been converted into one. The dormers were a later addition to the cottage second from the left. The design of the cottages is functional rather than decorative but the stone used in the construction is similar to stone used in the castle. Estate workers often lived in specially built cottages throughout the estate while house servants slept in shared bedrooms in the castle attic. Cluny Castle was built in 1805 for the Macphersons of Cluny and stands on the site of an earlier castle which was destroyed by fire in 1746. William Laidlaw Carruthers, Inverness, designed the north-west wing and the Queen Anne Revival-style porch c.1890. Many of the estate buildings were also built when the castle was rebuilt, including gate lodges, stables, meal mill, saw mill and walled gardens. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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