Dorlin House
House (19th Century), Military Camp (20th Century)
Site Name Dorlin House
Classification House (19th Century), Military Camp (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Loch Moidart; Hms Dorlin; Combined Operations Training Centre
Canmore ID 106992
Site Number NM67SE 21
NGR NM 6645 7207
NGR Description c.NM 6645 7207
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/106992
- Council Highland
- Parish Arisaig And Moidart
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
NM67SE 21 c.6645 7207
Location taken from OS 2nd edition 6-inch map.
Used during World War Two for special boat and beach signal training under Combined Operations, particularly for Royal Marine Commando units. The establishment was detached from HMS Lochailort (NM78SE 6 and NM78SE 15) in 1942
Information from RCAHMS (DE), April 2008
NM67SE 21 c.6645 7207
Location uncertain, possibly NM 6615 7127, house now demolished.
Dated: 1864
Photographic Survey (September 1963)
Photographic survey of the exterior of Dorlin House, Inverness-shire, by the Scottish National Buildings Record in September 1963. The house has since been demolished.
Note (27 October 2014)
Dorlin House was demolished in 1963 or possibly 1964, by the military, using explosives. Michael Corp, a lieutenant in the Royal Engineers set and fired the charges when serving in the Territorial Army during summer camp in 1963 or 1964 at Stirling. He describes the demolition as text book with the building collapsing in on itself and nothing significant remained standing except the earlier north wing, which may have been originally a chapel, and has now been converted to a cottage.
Information to RCAHMS from Michael Corp, via M Briscoe 27 October 2014.
