Listed Building: Skibo Castle Dairy and Dairy House (LB599)
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Grade | B |
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Authority | Historic Scotland |
Item | 14 |
Date assigned | 07 March 1984 |
Date last amended |
Description
Description
Dairy; circa 1900, single storey octagonal dairy with centre door in wide west bay and narrow flanking windows, and wing to rear linked to Dairy House. Tooled, sneck coursed rubble; narrow windows with leaded Art Nouveau glazing.
Red tiled bellcast roof, with deep projecting eaves borne on rustic wood columns forming veranda with red quarry tiled paving. Ornamental tiled ridge with three octagonal louvred and ogee headed ventilators.
Interior: two rooms with decorative tiled walls, tiled floors and marble benches. Ornamental fountain in western room.
Dairy House: also circa 1900, asymmetrical cruciform plan house, single storey and attic, 3 bays. Crowsteppped gabled with rectangular bay windows in ground floor, east and south. Entrance in re-entrant angle; 2 piended dormers with deep eaves and tile finials; multi-pane glazing in upper sashes; central ridge battery of 4 octagonal stacks; red tiled roof and decorative tiled ridge.
Notes
One ventilator damaged. Dairy and Dairy House are single building.
References (None)
External Links (1)
- http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB599 (View this Listed Building Report on Historic Scotland website)
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Location
Grid reference | NH 73724 89323 (point) |
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Map sheet | NH78NW |
Geographical Area | SUTHERLAND |
Civil Parish | DORNOCH |
Related Monuments/Buildings (2)
Record last edited
Feb 13 2015 11:23AM