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Skye, Skeabost House Hotel
Country House (19th Century), Drill Hall (First World War), Hotel (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Skye, Skeabost House Hotel
Classification Country House (19th Century), Drill Hall (First World War), Hotel (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Skeabost Country House Hotel
Canmore ID 11279
Site Number NG44NW 12
NGR NG 41302 48694
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/11279
- Council Highland
- Parish Snizort
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
Skeabost House Hotel, Alexander Ross, 1870-1 Stagey remodelling of old lodge for Lachlan Macdonald of Ord , with battlemented parapets, Tudor hoodmoulds and an ogee-roofed entrance tower complete with oriel window and glazed viewing platform. Gate Lodge, dated 1876.
Osborne (2006) notes that this building was, at least in part, used as a drill hall. In 1914 it was the base for "C" Squadron, 1st Lovat's Scouts.
Information from HS/RCAHMS World War One Audit Project (GJB) 19 July 2013.
Skeabost House Hotel, Alexander Ross, 1870-1 Stagey remodelling of old lodge for Lachlan Macdonald of Ord (see p.257 for more on him), with battlemented parapets, Tudor hoodmoulds and an ogee-roofed entrance tower complete with oriel window and glazed viewing platform. Gate Lodge, dated 1876.
[The improving Lachlan Macdonald, who made a fortune planting Indigo in India, bought Skeabost - formerly a Macleod tack - around 1870. A benevolent and popular landlord, he allowed his tenants to fix their own fair rents at a time of great hardship for crofters. Alexander Smith noted that there were almost no turf huts to be seen around Skeabost, but houses 'of stone and lime, tidily whitewashed'.]
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
NG44NW 12.00 41302 48694
Skeabost Country House Hotel [NAT]
OS (GIS) MasterMap, May 2010.
NG44NW 12.01 NG 41855 48404 Lodge
Architect: Alexander Ross (I.A. July 15, 1870) Additions and Alterations.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
Project (March 2013 - September 2013)
A project to characterise the quantity and quality of the Scottish resource of known surviving remains of the First World War. Carried out in partnership between Historic Scotland and RCAHMS.
