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SRP Archaeology Notes
Date 2 November 2011
Event ID 639345
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Srp Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/639345
Inverewe House was built in baronial style in 1862-4 for Osgood Mackenzie and his mother, and thereafter Osgood started to create the Gardens - the area was fenced in 1864 and earth-moving and planting began in 1865. The house was destroyed by fire in 1914.
In 1937 Mackenzie's daughter, Mrs Mairi Sawyer, had a new, white-harled house built on the previous house site. It was designed by Tarbolton and Ochterlony. Architectural and historical research has been undertaken and a conservation statement prepared for the NTS (APK Wright 2007).
Osgood Mackenzie suggested that the site for the house may have been that of the only green patch in the area, which was the site of the cattle herdsman's bothy, originally the Mackenzies of Lochend (Inverewe) long house.
