Skye, Waternish House
Lade (Post Medieval), Mill (Post Medieval)
Site Name Skye, Waternish House
Classification Lade (Post Medieval), Mill (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 71183
Site Number NG25NE 26
NGR NG 2559 5725
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/71183
- Council Highland
- Parish Duirinish
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
Dunvegan Macleod estate village, which replaced an earlier settlement around the castle. Various simple buildings designed or altered by Alexander Ross (contractors: Messrs Joass) include: Dunvegan Hotel, 1868-9 (a temperance hotel until 1947), and the Estate Office (Dunvegan House), early 19th century, built as the factor's house, later a post office, altered and extended, 1875. Pier, 1865, succeeding Telford's just to the south of 1815
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
Field Visit (21 November 1990)
NG25NE 26 2554 5724.
To the WNW of Waternish House and on the S side of the Allt Fasach, near where it issues into Loch Dunvegan, is a platform set into the valley side which may be a mill. A fragmentary lade leads into the NE corner of the terrace from the E, in the direction of a pond, depicted on the 1st edition of the Ordnance Survey map of 1880 (Island of Skye &c., Inverness-shire, 1880), immediately to the WNW of Waternish House (NG 2590 5713).
(WAT90 1478)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 21 November 1990.
