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Latitude: 58.5488 / 58°32'55"N
Longitude: -4.6622 / 4°39'44"W
OS Eastings: 245172
OS Northings: 965378
OS Grid: NC451653
Mapcode National: GBR G6V4.C4N
Mapcode Global: WH26S.CD47
Plus Code: 9CCQG8XQ+G4
Entry Name: Fishing Station, Rispond
Listing Name: Rispond Lodge, Cottage and Fishing Station
Listing Date: 18 March 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 330794
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB495
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Rispond, Fishing Station
ID on this website: 200330794
Location: Durness
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: North, West and Central Sutherland
Parish: Durness
Traditional County: Sutherland
Tagged with: Fishing station
Lodge; late 18th century, 2-storey and attic, 3-bay house;
centre door masked by later projecting gabled porch;
flanking single storey wings forming court, closed at
south by retaining wall; all white harled. 3 later piended
dormers; mainly 4-pane glazing; crowsteps to west (left)
wing; modern glazing to east (right) wing, which has centre
door in south elevation approached by flight of steps.
Corniced end stacks; slate roofs.
Court enclosed by harled and coped retaining wall with
cast-iron spearhead railings; pair square harled gate piers
with moulded copes and ball finials; match cast-iron
pedestrian gate.
Cottage (to rear of Main house); early 19th century, 2-storey,
3-bay cottage; centre door masked by modern lean-to porch
Single storey wings flanking Lodge were former fish boiling
houses Quay still used by fishing boats. Mr James Anderson
farmed Rispond and developed the fishing for which "he
built a pier and formed a village" at Rispond before 1813.
Donald Sage. Referred to as Ruspin in THE STATISTICAL
ACCOUNT (1790).
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