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Latitude: 57.9342 / 57°56'3"N
Longitude: -4.0248 / 4°1'29"W
OS Eastings: 280201
OS Northings: 895666
OS Grid: NH802956
Mapcode National: GBR J7FR.H2T
Mapcode Global: WH4D8.4TPY
Plus Code: 9C9QWXMG+M3
Entry Name: Girnal House, Littleferry
Listing Name: Little Ferry Former Girnel, Now Cottages
Listing Date: 7 March 1984
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 338790
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB7020
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Littleferry, Girnal House
ID on this website: 200338790
Location: Golspie
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: East Sutherland and Edderton
Parish: Golspie
Traditional County: Sutherland
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Dated 1859. Former mid 18th century rectangular girnel or
storehouse, converted in 1859 as single storey and attic
range of 5 dwellings, 3 in ground floor, and 2 in attic
with access by forestairs at NE and SW gables. Harled
rubble with grey ashlar corner stones, copes to
forestairs, crowsteps and cavetto skewputts. Tooled red
sandstone dressings for all 1859 work. Long asymmetrical
7-bay SE frontage with near centre door, flanked by
rectangular bay window with swept roof; further single
doors in outer bays and 3 tripartite windows. 4 gabled
dormers, 3 rising from wallhead, with tripartites and
bipartites. Centre doors in 1st floor of both gables with
small flanking windows. 2 tall hipped wallhead stacks in
outer rear bays, and 2 further tall paired ridge coped
stacks. Steeply pitched slate roof.
Stands close to shore at Little Ferry. Original use was
as store to hold grain pending collection by boat for
transport elsewhere.
Girnel at Little Ferry in use for storage of surplus
grain from Dunrobin estate at least by 1772. <>
Datestone in 1 dormer pediment and monogram SS
(Sutherland/Stafford) in another.
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