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Shiel Bridge, Hydro House
House (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Shiel Bridge, Hydro House
Classification House (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Acharacle House
Canmore ID 277994
Site Number NM66NE 26
NGR NM 67350 68921
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/277994
- Council Highland
- Parish Ardnamurchan
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Argyll
At Shiel Bridge, the good survival of late 19th-century domestic offices to Shielbridge House (now demolished - see p.106 for picture and information) includes:
Hydro House, an extended U-plan complex comprising former laundry, coachhouse, flanking electrician's and gamekeeper's houses, kennels, staff dwellings and engine shed. On the opposite side of the road, the Square and Old Butlers' Quarters in Sydney Mitchell's unmistakable Arts & Crafts style, combining steep crowstepped gables with a pretty bellcote flèche. This group comprised two chauffeurs' bedrooms (Rudd is said to have kept seven Rolls Royces in Ardnamurchan), gun room, turbine house and butchery, with two adjacent squash courts, one uncovered, one indoors.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
