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Kingussie, Duke Street, Macrobert House
House (19th Century), Museum (20th Century)
Site Name Kingussie, Duke Street, Macrobert House
Classification House (19th Century), Museum (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Highland Folk Museum
Canmore ID 112178
Site Number NH70SE 60
NGR NH 76001 00676
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/112178
- Council Highland
- Parish Kingussie And Insh
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Badenoch And Strathspey
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH70SE 60 76003 00674
Location formerly entered as NH 7599 0067.
2-storey, symmetrical 3-bay W facing house. Whitewashed rubble; whitewashed single storey extension at S gable with rubble flanks. Centre door masked by later gabled porch 12-pane glazing; end stacks; local slate roof. Tuskers and blocked doors at N gable indicate former adjoining house or later extension. Lean-to addition across rear elevation.
MacRobert House forms part of the Highland Folk Museum centred on former Pitmain Lodge sited next door. Slates for roof probably from quarries in Glen Banchor, Newtonmore. (Historic Environment Scotland List Entry)
Photographic Survey (1955)
Photographs of buildings in Kingussie by the Scottish National Buildings Record in 1955.
