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Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 567133
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/567133
The Lodge, Robert Mauchlen of Mauchlen & Weightman, Newcastle, in collaboration with Sir Walter Runciman, 1926-1927 Colonial style villa (originally flat-roofed) more redolent of Fairey and Dawbarn's contemporary Raffles College in Singapore than any Highland lodge. Behind the handsome Italianate frontispiece, the house is very narrow in plan. The semi-tropical garden was largely the creation of Sir Steven Runciman in the 1930s, testament to the island's remarkable Gulf Stream microclimate. Here, flame trees, palm trees, horse chestnuts, azaleas, euchryphias and eucalyptus trees flourish, in lush contrast to the wild moor above.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
