Raasay, Raasay House, Kennels

Top Barn, 1856 (the year a diary entry records 'heather barn destroyed by fire') A long, piend-roofed threshing barn with extensive timber louvring. Boswell's description of its predecessor shows how little the general form of these Kintail barns has changed: 'about the highth of an ordinary dike, and above that is work of wattles covered on the outside with heath … And it is well thatched with heath. This is better than having slits in the walls, for the air comes more equally'. Among this ensemble of good 19th century estate buildings are the kennels (a row of seven in a single block) and former laundry (now a farmhouse).

Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk

Component of Raasay House's home farm. Long single-storey, rectangular-plan range of kennels to W of Top Barn. 7 segregated runs with cast-iron railings to S; former wash house to outer right with remains of washtub and chimney stack. Piended slate roof.

The detached kennel range to NW, comprising 7 units each with its own run with tall cast-iron railings spanning the length of the S elevation, was conceived as part of the mid 19th century expansion and are stylistically sympathetic to the earlier steading plan and design. (Historic Scotland)