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View from W Digital image of SU/858

SC 772707

Description View from W Digital image of SU/858

Date 1982

Catalogue Number SC 772707

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of SU 858

Scope and Content West Lodge from south-west, Skibo Castle, Highland This shows the west lodge which was built in 1907 and designed by Robert J Macbeth (d.1912). The two-storeyed wing (left) and the three-storeyed round stair-tower are corbelled and battlemented at roof level. An eagle, which probably represents power, surmounts the crowstepped gable on the right. The four gate piers are associated with iron gates and railings and are battlemented and corbelled in a similar style to the lodge. Gatehouses were located around the estate perimeter and were occupied by the servant and his family who opened and closed the gates leading to the country house or castle. The buildings were designed to hint at the quality of the architecture of the main house or constructed in an architectural style favoured by the owner of the estate. 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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