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Letterewe House
House (18th Century)
Site Name Letterewe House
Classification House (18th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Letterewe Lodge; House And Rear Service Block
Canmore ID 12048
Site Number NG97SE 2
NGR NG 95139 71360
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/12048
- Council Highland
- Parish Gairloch
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NG97SE 2.00 95139 71360
NG97SE 2.01 NG 95143 71324 Watch House
NG97SE 2.02 NG 95217 71323 Steading
NG97SE 2.03 NG 95975 70404 Furnace
(NG 95157133) The Letterewe estates belonged to the Kintail or Seaforth family up to and including the early part of the seventeenth century. Sir George Hay, the ironmaster, lived there for some years about the beginning of the seventeenth century, probably in an old house on the site of the present Letterewe House, which is an enlargement of the older residence of the family of Mackenzie of Letterewe who are descended from the sixth laird of Gairloch who died in 1669.
J H Dixon 1886.
According to Mr MacPherson (D MacPherson, Head Stocker, Letterewe, Wester Ross), the present Letterewe House, now belonging to the Whitbread family, situated on the NE shores of Loch Maree, and still in use, is basically 17th.c. The SE wing, a rectangular structure, used as a kitchen, and the crennellated garden wall, 0.8m thick and 2.5m high to the S of it are believed to be 15th.c. but the building has been harled and re-roofed, and so modified that no salient features of that period remain. The NE wing was constructed in 1858.
Visited by OS (N K B) 5 April 1965.
