Skinnet Farm, House
Farmhouse (18th Century)
Site Name Skinnet Farm, House
Classification Farmhouse (18th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Skinnet Farmhouse; Skinnet House
Canmore ID 100400
Site Number ND16SW 49.01
NGR ND 12791 61726
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/100400
- Council Highland
- Parish Halkirk
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND16SW 49.01 12791 61726
East facing symmetrical 2-storey, 3-bay house with flanking single storey, 2-bay wings and symmetrical rear elevation. All harled rubble. Slightly advanced and pedimented centre bay with diminutive centre attic window
and centre door. Flanking wings have slightly advanced and pedimented outer bays, with later lean-to against south gable. Symmetrical rear elevation with full width catslide roof, centre stair window close under wallhead and small piended dormers in outer bays. Mainly 12-pane glazing; corniced end stacks, renewed at south; Caithness slate roof. Low, roughly coped, rubble garden wall.
Before Reformation and for sometime after, Skinnet was a separate parish from Halkirk. The remains of the chapel of St Thomas are NE of house (Chapel is Scheduled Monument) House no longer inhabited and in poor state of repair (1982). (Historic Scotland)
