North Uist, Claddach-kyles, Westford Inn
Inn (19th Century)
Site Name North Uist, Claddach-kyles, Westford Inn
Classification Inn (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) West Ford
Canmore ID 9982
Site Number NF76NE 5
NGR NF 77485 66197
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/9982
- Council Western Isles
- Parish North Uist
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Western Isles
- Former County Inverness-shire
Westford Inn, 1872/3 An enlarged tea caddy with a massive battery of flues rising from its apex, built on a levelled knoll as the doctor's residence/surgery at the expense of proprietor Sir John Campbell- Orde (see p.372 for more on him). The pretty, lozenge-paned windows are said to have come from the family's Argyll residence, Kilmory Castle. It became an inn in 1896, and was described by Louis MacNeice in 1938 as 'an oddly square building dumped on a desolate landscape. An ideal site for a murder story'.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
