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Latitude: 57.6897 / 57°41'22"N
Longitude: -4.2647 / 4°15'52"W
OS Eastings: 265090
OS Northings: 868902
OS Grid: NH650689
Mapcode National: GBR H8VD.F88
Mapcode Global: WH3D5.GZFD
Plus Code: 9C9QMPQP+V4
Entry Name: Teaninich House
Listing Name: Teaninich House
Listing Date: 25 March 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 330582
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB342
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200330582
Location: Alness
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Cromarty Firth
Parish: Alness
Traditional County: Ross-shire
Tagged with: House
Dated 1784. Probably earlier core, re-fronted in Adam castellated style early/earlier 19th century. 3-storey and attic, 5-bay mansion; rubble with tooled and polished ashlar dressings. Front elevation; advanced centre bay with projecting crenellated centre porch with polygonal crenellated angle piers; pointed-headed entrance and Gothic fanlight to inner doorway. Centre pointed-headed 1st floor window with Gothic glazing pattern and cusped bull's eye window above; windows hoodmoulded; 12-pane glazing; crenellated wallhead with dummy angle bartizans; 1 blind window in each floor on return elevation (except ground floor, SW gable, which also has 1 blocked 1st floor window and off-set ground floor window). This single pile block front 2-storey block, which with additional rear wings, is linked to main frontage by a continuous wallhead crenellation. Batteries of diagonally set tall ashlar corniced stacks; piended and platform slate roofs.
Interior: double leaf front door with Gothic detailing to panelling opens to wide entrance hall with decorative plaster ceiling, clustered columns and decorative cast-iron balusters to staircase. Various late 18th century door and chimney pieces and plaster ceiling cornices.
To rear 2 datestones; one very worn with Munro eagle; the second also with Munro crest dated 1784. "Seat" of Captain Hugh Munro of Teaninich by 1797 and the estate much improved by him. (GENERAL VIEW OF AGRICULTURE). The outline of the earlier house is clearly discernable within the later encasing mansion.
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