View from S Digital image of SU/243/10

Description View from S Digital image of SU/243/10

Date 7/1961

Catalogue Number SC 772709

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of SU 243/10

Scope and Content Skibo Castle, Highland, from south This shows the south elevation of the castle with a terrace in front. Two towers which have squared and rounded corners flank the three-storeyed and attic main block. A corbelled battlement is at roof level and the block on the right has a crowstepped gable with a corbelled corner turret. The large tower in the background has a flagpole flying a flag with a Union Jack on one side and 'Stars & Stripes' on the other. Permission to fly this unusual flag was granted by His Majesty King Edward VII. The main service rooms were located on the ground floor of a side wing and were where the servants prepared and cooked food. The family entertained guests in the main reception rooms (dining and drawing rooms) on the ground floor and slept in the bedrooms on the first floor. The male servants shared bedrooms in the attic. 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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