Lewis, Grimersta, Kennels
Kennels (19th Century)
Site Name Lewis, Grimersta, Kennels
Classification Kennels (19th Century)
Canmore ID 238283
Site Number NB23SW 76
NGR NB 21582 30206
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/238283
- Council Western Isles
- Parish Uig
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Western Isles
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
Garynahine Lodge, 19th century Formerly Garynahine Hotel, with adjacent stables, coach house, byre, barn and dairy; used as a shooting lodge since 1925. It may incorporate parts of the inn which occupied this site from at least 1720. Grimersta, 1871-2 Shooting lodge on the other side of Loch Cean Hulavig, now visually impaired by a barracklike annex of 1989. That it was built by one of Matheson's sporting tenants - Dr Thomas Key - confirms the demand for sporting tenancies at this period, and the low cost of labour. Of interest is the contemporary octagonal kennel block, one of a trio in Lewis, with a flue rising from the apex of its (now slateless) facetted roof.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk