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Skye, Bracadale, Balgown Manse
Manse (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Skye, Bracadale, Balgown Manse
Classification Manse (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Balgown House
Canmore ID 99174
Site Number NG33NE 42
NGR NG 35451 39061
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/99174
- Council Highland
- Parish Bracadale
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
Balgown Parish Church, William Smith, 1831 A simple box with Y-traceried windows beside the Voaker burn. In the stone-walled kirkyard, remnants of an earlier pre-Reformation church and two late medieval gravestones, carvings of knight etc. still discernible. Near the waterfall above, the (former) Balgown Manse, c.1790, altered and extended by Alexander Ross, 1882.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
Balgown House is shown on the OS 1:10,000 maps.
The NMRS Collection holds a photograph and negative under the name 'Balgowin House', but the corresponding catalogue slip uses 'Balagowin'. Neither name appears in the OS Gazeteer list, and it is not known (at time of upgrade) if they are simply different spellings of Balgown, spelling mistakes or separate properties.
