Skye, Sconser Lodge
Hotel (Period Unassigned), Hunting Lodge (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Skye, Sconser Lodge
Classification Hotel (Period Unassigned), Hunting Lodge (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Sconser Lodge Hotel
Canmore ID 11497
Site Number NG53SW 3
NGR NG 53182 32230
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/11497
- Council Highland
- Parish Portree
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
Sconser Lodge, John Mackenzie, 1881-5. Municipal-looking villa with battlemented lookout tower, formerly a Macdonald shooting lodge.
[No trace survives of the 'solitary inn'/post office at Sconser (rebuilt by J. Gillespie Graham, 1804-5), site of the meeting between the Macleod and Macdonald chiefs in 1745 to consider whether or not they would support BPC. In the event neither did; Sir Alexander Macdonald said he would, but changed his mind the next day (his wife retained Jacobite sympathies).]
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2007. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
REFERENCE:
SCOTTISH RECORD OFFICE
Repair of the House of Sconser.
Letter from Alexander MacQueen to Lord MacDonald's Commissioners.
He asks that Mr Gillespie [Architect] should order his foreman to attend to the repairs.
The Commissioners agree that Mr Gillespie should do this.
1802 GD 221/64/8
