Salmon Fisher's House
Date 30 January 1997
Event ID 898232
Category Management
Type Site Management
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/898232
2-storey and attic, rectangular-plan house on ground falling to S. Rubble with dressed quoins. E (SAUT GIRNAL WYND) ELEVATION: boarded timber door with inscribed lintel '17 DS ES 65' to left of centre and window to right at ground, further window to right at 1st floor. Boundary wall adjoining to outer right. S (PAN HA') ELEVATION: windows to right at ground and to outer right at 1st floor, gablehead stack. Small-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Pantiles. Coped rubble stack.
Cunningham refers to this as 'The Salmon House' which "takes its name from the fact that on the ceiling of one of the upper rooms there is a salmon in plaster relief". By the beginning of this century it was known as the 'Salmon Fisher's Bothy' (Historic Scotland)
