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Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 566970
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/566970
Mains, 1850s An 'improved' farm complex connected to the loch by canal to facilitate transport of timber etc., the group including: a polite farmhouse, stable, bothy, cart shed, sawmill with tall chimney and stone-lined lade. Faire na Sgurr, George Jack, 1902 Virtually untouched Arts & Crafts house built for Miss Constance Astley, its English Arts & Crafts manner fused with a Scottish sturdiness, now all enveloped by lush, blowsy gardens. Tile hanging and weatherboarding are mixed with unharled walls of dark-pinned rubble and sweeping expanses of slate. The plans are said to have been overseen by an elderly Philip Webb, who allowed one of his chimneypiece designs to be used (modified) in the sitting room. Notable features include the tower-like fusion of gable and chimney and a two-storey sunroom with tiled stove designed specially for Miss Astley, who suffered from TB. Other idiosyncracies testify to her involvement with the arts, including an original dark room and a relief of St. Michael inset above a plaque inscribed with a Gaelic poem.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
