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Latitude: 57.8727 / 57°52'21"N
Longitude: -4.1317 / 4°7'54"W
OS Eastings: 273659
OS Northings: 889014
OS Grid: NH736890
Mapcode National: GBR J75X.G56
Mapcode Global: WH4DL.HDR2
Plus Code: 9C9QVVF9+38
Entry Name: Terraced Garden, Skibo Castle
Listing Name: Skibo Castle and Garden Terraces, Walled Garden and Glasshouses
Listing Date: 18 March 1971
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 330968
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB597
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Skibo Castle, Terraced Garden
ID on this website: 200330968
Location: Dornoch
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: East Sutherland and Edderton
Parish: Dornoch
Traditional County: Sutherland
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Dated 1900. Ross Macbeth. Very large Scottish Baronial castellated mansion incorporating earlier house. Tooled ashlar, polished ashlar dressings. Asymmetrical, 4 and 5 storeys, long composite south and west facades opening to terrace. Principal entrance in east elevation with imposing porte cochere. Bowed and canted bay windows, some single storey, some full height; square and round towers and turrets, crenellation, crowsteps and fanciful decorative detailing in Scots idiom including plant forms and animals. Mullioned and transomed windows, corbelled angle turrets. Plainer wings to rear enclosing service court with built-in garages.
Interior; ornate interior including baronial hall and library.
Gardens and terrace; Thomas Mawson, 1904. Terraces in front of and descending from house with stone balustraded and ball finialled steps; sundial at head of eastern steps. Walled garden; walled garden to east of mansion with lean-to glasshouses and polygonal end tower.
Glasshouses; large range of early 20th century glasshouses to north of
castle with thistle motif cast-iron ridge cresting and decorative finials.
Site of medieval castle belonging to Diocese of Caithness until 1565. Subsequent castellated building included as core to present mansion.
Purchased by Andrew Carnegie about 1898, and enlarged by him. For Gate Lodge and Piers, see Creich Parish list. Sold by Mrs Carnegie Mille in 1982.
Up-graded from Category B to A 4 March 2003.
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