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Field Visit
Date 31 July 1987
Event ID 681278
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/681278
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At the break of slope below the farmstead of Craigsheal (NO 05 SE 23), commanding views to the SE across Loch Benachally, there are the remains of a lesser ranking laird or tacksman's house, probably of late 17th- or early 18th-century date.
It is gable-ended and rectangular on plan measuring 14m from WSW to ENE by 7m transversely over clay-bonded rubble walls 0.8m in thickness; it probably comprised a ground-floor hall and chamber, and originally stood two storeys in height, but the side-walls are reduced to their lowest courses.
The entrance is central to the SSE wall and is flanked by two splayed window-openings; that on the WSW is checked for a fixed frame.
A lintelled fireplace is incorporated at ground-floor level in the ENE gable, and a flue at the NNW end of the gable suggests the provision of an oven. A scarcement, fireplace and mural-press are visible at first-floor level in the ENE gable; the position of the stair is not apparent, though it was most likely to have been against the N wall.
At the rear of the house the ground has been cut away to aid run-off from the garden which extends upslope to the NW. The policies appear to be depicted by Roy and the house is shown as ruinous by Stobie.
W Roy 1747-55; J Stobie 1783
Visited by RCAHMS (IMS) 31 July 1987
RCAHMS 1990
