View from SE Digital image of SU/853

Description View from SE Digital image of SU/853

Date 1982

Catalogue Number SC 772701

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of SU 853

Scope and Content Dairy House from south-east, Skibo Castle, Highland This shows the single-storeyed and attic c.1900 dwelling house with the wing which contained the dairy room (where butter and cheese was made) and the cool room (where dairy products were kept fresh) on the left. The four octagonal chimney-stacks complement the roof ventilators (one shown) of the dairy wing. Traditionally the dairymaid would be responsible for separating the cream from the milk and for making butter and cheese. There was probably more than one dairymaid at Skibo Castle as Andrew Carnegie employed around 85 servants and it probably was the supervisor of these maids who lived in this house. Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) was born in Scotland and made a fortune in the steel industry in the United States of America. Once his daughter was born he decided that she should have a Scottish home, and at the end of the 19th century he bought a large Baronial house at Skibo built in 1880 by Clarke & Bell. In addition to the £85,000 purchase price, he spent a further £2 million in the creation of an even larger mansion, constructed between 1899 and 1903 to the designs of Ross & Macbeth. In 1981 his daughter Margaret decided to sell the estate, and the castle lay empty until 1990 when Peter de Savary paid £10 million for the castle and the 2,832-hectare estate. Some £30 million was then invested in its transformation into the Carnegie Club, a private residential golf and sporting club. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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