World War One Audit of Surviving Remains
Date 17 July 2013
Event ID 962568
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type World War One Audit of Surviving Remains
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/962568
The Golspie drill hall is a large low-aisled, big-roofed drill hall, predominantly of timber construction, built in 1892 and surrounding a later 19th-century caretaker's house at rear and with a house added to the front left about 1910. The building's architect was Laurie Bissett, architect to the Duke of Sutherland.
The building has an asymmetrcial T-plan with a low wide two-storey bell tower to the right of the entrance.
In 1914 the building was the battalion HQ and base for "A" Company of the 5th Seaforth Highlanders. It was in use as a TA centre until the 1990s. The hall is down derilect, although the cottages remain in use as dwellings.
Information from HS/RCAHMS World War One Audit Project (GJB) 17 July 2013.
