Skye, Armadale Castle, Laundry
Laundry (19th Century)
Site Name Skye, Armadale Castle, Laundry
Classification Laundry (19th Century)
Canmore ID 100558
Site Number NG60SW 8.03
NGR NG 63805 04737
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/100558
- Council Highland
- Parish Sleat
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
Stables, 1821-2, built under superintendence of James Ferguson, probably to Gillespie Graham's design, as a Gothick eyecatcher, with crenellated staircase tower flanked by stables, and coach houses at each end. Conversion to visitor centre, with octagonal restaurant extension, by the Boys Jarvis Partnership, 1984. Inside, a marble fireplace with grape carvings has been re-sited from Ferguslie Park, Paisley (demolished 1980s), so presumably by Hippolyte Jean Blanc or Whytoch & Reid.
Laundry, presumably of the same date and hand; another ornamental estate building in similar Gothick style, now a cement-capped ruin beside the windowless bulk of Charles Macdonell's Museum and Study Centre of 2002.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
NG60SW 8.03 63805 04737
See also: NG60SW 8.00 Skye, Armadale Castle
8.01 Skye, Armadale Castle, Stables
8.02 Skye, Armadale Castle, Bridge
8.04 Skye, Armadale Castle, Gardens
9 Skye, Armadale Castle (archaeology entry)
Photographic Survey (February 1965)
Photographic survey of Armadale Castle, Skye, Inverness-shire, by the Scottish National Buildings Record/Ministry of Works in February 1965.
