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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 715725
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/715725
NT36NW 36 30743 69920.
(NT 3060 6991) Woolmet Ho (NAT)
OS 6" map (1968)
Woolmet House, a fine 17th c mansion, is an L-shaped structure, three storeys in height, with a main block facing E-W, and the re-entrant angle facing NW. The house is rough-cast, but the dressings of the openings are exposed. The chimneys and turret-staircase are built of ashlar. The gables of the wings are crow-stepped.
RCAHMS 1929, visited 1915
Woolmet House is as described.
Visited by OS (BS) 31 October 1975
Despite the OS assertion that the house was extant in 1975 it was demolished in the ealy 1950's due to mining subsidence. Some of the carved stone was incorporated into the Castle of Mey, Caithness by Sinclair MacDonald Architects for HM Queen Elizabeth The Queenmother.
Information from RCAHMS (STG) March 2005
