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Desk Based Assessment
Date 19 April 1966
Event ID 879407
Category Recording
Type Desk Based Assessment
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/879407
(NF 10059930) Lady Grange House (NAT)
OS 6"map annotated by J Mathieson (1928)
Lady Grange was imprisoned in this building in 1734 for a period of 8 years, after being abducted at the instigation of her husband and, it is thought, of Simon Lord Lovat (D Laing 1876).
Mathieson (J Mathieson 1928) states that the original house was timber-roofed, and when it fell in it was rebuilt as a 'cleit', but Williamson (K Williamson and J M Boyd 1960) considers it to be the only surviving portion of a 'black-house'. The doorway is said to be original, but the wooden lock (of a design peculiar to the island) is at Dunvegan Castle, Skye.
Information from OS (BRS) 19 April 1966
D Laing 1876; J Mathieson 1928; K Williamson and J M Boyd 1960.
