Lairg, Main Street, Drill Hall
Community Centre (20th Century), Drill Hall (First World War), Drill Hall (20th Century)
Site Name Lairg, Main Street, Drill Hall
Classification Community Centre (20th Century), Drill Hall (First World War), Drill Hall (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Community Centre
Canmore ID 331781
Site Number NC50NE 141
NGR NC 58537 06334
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/331781
- Council Highland
- Parish Lairg
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
A drill hall is marked on the 2nd edition 1:2500 OS map (surveyed 1903). It was converted into a community centre in the 1970s, a large flat-roofed extension being added, largely obscuring the street frontage. The drill hall seems to have been T-shaped on plan, with the hall occupying the head of the T, the triple-windowed bagle facing the street. The arm of the T was single-storey with two dormers. The ground floor arrangements are now obscured.
The drill hall does not appear in Osborne's (2006) list and it is not known which units, if any, were based here in 1914.
Information from HS/RCAHMS World War One Audit Project (GJB) 17 July 2013
Project (March 2013 - September 2013)
A project to characterise the quantity and quality of the Scottish resource of known surviving remains of the First World War. Carried out in partnership between Historic Scotland and RCAHMS.
Note (14 January 2014)
Lairg drill hall was the drill station for C Coy. 5Bn. Seaforths & H Sqdn Lovat's Scouts.
Information from M Osbourne to RCAHMS 14 January 2014.
