Achdalieu Lodge
Hotel (Period Unassigned), Hunting Lodge (Period Unassigned), Military Headquarters (20th Century)
Site Name Achdalieu Lodge
Classification Hotel (Period Unassigned), Hunting Lodge (Period Unassigned), Military Headquarters (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Loch Eil Centre; Special Training Centre
Canmore ID 105245
Site Number NN07NE 11
NGR NN 05785 78387
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/105245
- Council Highland
- Parish Kilmallie
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
Achdalieu, Alexander Ross, 1885 Enlarged baronial villa with conical roofed stairtower over round-arched entrance. Built as a shooting lodge, it became a hotel in 1952, and an outward bound school in 1964. Good group of contemporary keeper's cottage, kennels, and game larder nearby.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
NN07NE 11.00 05785 78387
Requistioned by the War Office in 1940 for use by Special Operations for training of soldiers in guerilla warfare. The house was used by officers and as a headquarters whilst the other ranks used the hutted camp about 277m to the SW (NN07NE 11.02).
The house and camp are visible on vertical air photographs (CPE/UK/Scot 177, frames 4437-4439, flown 7 Ocotber 1946).
Information from RCAHMS (DE), April 2008; S Allan 2007
NN07NE 11.00 05785 78387
NN07NE 11.01 05606 78505 Keeper's Cottage with Kennels and Game Larder (Stalker's House)
Reference
Architect: Alexander Ross (I.C. Jan. 20, 1885)
Field Walking (October 2001)
NN 1191 7702 to NN 0928 7460 A desk-based assessment and walkover survey were carried out in advance of work to lay new sections of water main, totalling approximately 16km, on the N and S shores of Loch Eil. The desk-based assessment identified a single building on the 1st edition OS not noted in the NMRS (NN 0584 7829). The survey identified two sites: a small 19th-century building (NN 0512 7702) and a borrow-pit (NN 0936 7517).
Full report lodged with the NMRS.
Sponsor: Team Aquarius
R Conolly 2001 (Headland Archaeology)
