Building record MHG11933 - Rispond Fishing Station

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Grid reference Centred NC 4515 6542 (159m by 183m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NC46NE
Geographical Area SUTHERLAND
Old County SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish DURNESS

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NH46NE0002 Rispond Lodge and cottage

JHooper, 20/09/2001
NC46NE 1 451 653
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The Industrial Archaeology of Sutherland (A Scottish Highland Economy 1700-1900, pp. 93, 104-105, 236, 249) - Sinclair B Calder, 1974

J Aitken : 19/2/2004
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(Location cited as NC 452 654). Pier, store etc., Rispond, c. 1788 and later. A delightful group with: a massive coursed-rubble pier and quay; a two-storey and attic fish house with external stair to the first floor, crow-stepped gables and a fish wind-vane; a single-storey barn, and three dwelling-houses, one of them with wings designed as salmon-boiling houses.
J R Hume 1977.

A photographic survey was carried out in 2011 as a condition of a planning application for the conversion of a byre/agricultural store into a two bedroom holiday letting cottage (Listed Building).

Sources/Archives (3)

  • --- Text/Publication/Volume: Hume, J R. 1977. The industrial archaeology of Scotland 2: The Highlands and Islands. Paper (Original). 314; pl. 118.
  • --- Text/Publication/Volume: Sinclair B Calder. 1974. The Industrial Archaeology of Sutherland (A Scottish Highland Economy 1700-1900).
  • <1> Image/Photograph(s): Spence, A. 2011. Photographic Survey - Rispond Lodge, Durness. Colour. Digital.

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Apr 23 2014 3:30PM

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