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Clayside
House (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Clayside
Classification House (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 6557
Site Number NC80SE 7
NGR NC 8572 0161
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/6557
- Council Highland
- Parish Golspie
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC80SE 7 8572 0161
(NC 8572 0161) Clayside (NR)
(remains of)
OS 6" map, (1964).
Clayside; a group of about eight buildings with arable is shown.
W Roy 1747-55.
The name Clayside refers to the remains of an old mansion house forming the N wall of a clump of trees in a field to the E of Dunrobin Mains. The place is well known in the district, but no further information can be obtained.
OS Name Book 1873.
All that survives is a stretch of walling 13.0m long, 0.6m thick and 2.0m high at the E end, reducing to ground level at the W; it is constructed of rubble masonry mortared, on the faces only, with lime bond.
Midway along the present top, and an integral part of the wall, is a flat dressed slab 0.7m long, 0.5m above ground level and is either a door-step or a window ledge. The wall appears to have extended eastwards, but probably in the form of the plantation bank which enclosed the wood in which it lies. The vicinity of the wall is littered with debris and fallen trees.
The name still applies but no other information was forth-coming on the site.
Visited by OS (E G C) 7 April 1962 and (J M) 21 August 1975.
