Raasay, Raasay House, Laundry
Laundry (19th Century)-(20th Century)
Site Name Raasay, Raasay House, Laundry
Classification Laundry (19th Century)-(20th Century)
Canmore ID 276136
Site Number NG53NW 30.07
NGR NG 54891 36571
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/276136
- Council Highland
- Parish Portree
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
Top Barn, 1856 (the year a diary entry records 'heather barn destroyed by fire') A long, piend-roofed threshing barn with extensive timber louvring. Boswell's description of its predecessor shows how little the general form of these Kintail barns has changed: 'about the highth of an ordinary dike, and above that is work of wattles covered on the outside with heath … And it is well thatched with heath. This is better than having slits in the walls, for the air comes more equally'. Among this ensemble of good 19th century estate buildings are the kennels (a row of seven in a single block) and former laundry (now a farmhouse).
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk