Archaeology Notes
Event ID 662219
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NH64NW 5 6217 4591.
(NH 6217 4591) Bunchrew [NAT]
OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1905)
Bunchrew, owned by the Frasers of Lovat in the early part of the 16th Century, was bought from them by John or Duncan Forbes, the father of President Forbes, in 1670. There used to be a moat round the house; also a drawbridge, the last arch of which fell into ruins abaout 1839.
ISSFC 1885.
The present house of Bunchrew was built in 1615 (Infromation from J O A Fraser MacKenzie, Bunchrew) It is a plain rectangular building c. 22m x c. 8m with crow-stepped gables and harled walls. In the 19th cent., extensive additions were added to the original building on its north and south sides. There is now no trace of the moat and drawbridge mentioned by Inverness Scientific Fld Club.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 28 March 1962.
Residential House; designed landscape
17th century AD; built 1615.
CFA/MORA Coastal Assessment Survey 1998.