Archaeology Notes

Event ID 648428

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC22SW 3 24385 23347.

(NC 2436 2334) Calda House (NR) (remains of)

OS 6" map, (1967)

Named 'Calda House'

J Home 1774-5.

Edderchalder, Calder of Calda House, known locally as the White House, is said to have been erected in 1660 by the 3rd Earl of Seaforth. It was an oblong block of two storeys and an attic, divided in two by a wall running down the centre, but it is now roofless and much ruined with the side facing the loch having disappeared entirely. It is said to have been reduced to this state deliberately by fire in the mid-18th century.

NSA 1845; D MacGibbon and T Ross 1889; RCAHMS 1911.

Calda House, which is no more than a shell, measures overall 16.5 m N-S by 13.5 m; otherwise it is as described above.

Visited by OS (G H P) 23 May 1962 and (J B) 12 August 1980.