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Skye, Kingsburgh House, Walled Garden
Walled Garden (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Skye, Kingsburgh House, Walled Garden
Classification Walled Garden (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 253812
Site Number NG35NE 37.01
NGR NG 39418 55301
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/253812
- Council Highland
- Parish Snizort
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
Kingsburgh , later 18th and early 19th centuries. A former laird's house languishing at the end of a rook-haunted avenue, its structure - a charming fusion of the polite and the vernacular - now sagging beneath encroaching root and branch. The original piend-roofed box was built to replace an earlier house, which stood closer to the shore. In the early 19th century it acquired quadrant links to flanking single-storey pavilions and a crowstep-gabled stair block on the front whose details are suggestive of Gillespie Graham. Sheltered walled garden and good U-plan court of contemporary steadings.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2007. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
