Interior Detail of sinks in Wash Room Digital image of SU/856

Description Interior Detail of sinks in Wash Room Digital image of SU/856

Date 1982

Catalogue Number SC 772706

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of SU 856

Scope and Content Sinks, Wash-room, Dairy House, Skibo Castle, Highland This shows a pair of fireclay sinks in the wash-room of the c.1900 dairy house that would have been used to wash the containers and the equipment used in the preparation of the dairy produce. The wooden box above the sink in the background has two holes where hot and cold taps would originally have projected. The room has tiled walls and a tiled mosaic floor that could be easily cleaned. The fireclay sink was traditionally known as a 'Belfast sink' because they were originally specified for Belfast where there was a plentiful water supply in the city in early Victorian days. These sinks were especially capacious. 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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