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Dairy Cottage, Dunrobin Mains, Dunrobin Castle

A Category B Listed Building in Golspie, Highland

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.9791 / 57°58'44"N

Longitude: -3.9496 / 3°56'58"W

OS Eastings: 284796

OS Northings: 900535

OS Grid: NC847005

Mapcode National: GBR J7MM.TRJ

Mapcode Global: WH4D3.9QG0

Plus Code: 9C9RX3H2+J4

Entry Name: Dairy Cottage, Dunrobin Mains, Dunrobin Castle

Listing Name: Dunrobin Castle Dairy Cottage and Former Milking Parlour

Listing Date: 7 March 1984

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 338825

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB7046

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Dunrobin Castle, Dunrobin Mains, Dairy Cottage

ID on this website: 200338825

Location: Golspie

County: Highland

Electoral Ward: East Sutherland and Edderton

Parish: Golspie

Traditional County: Sutherland

Tagged with: Cottage

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Description

Dairy Cottage; 19th century cottage orne; single storey
and attic asymmetrical composition. Coursed tooled rubble;
tooled ashlar dressings. 2-bay frontage to sea (south)
with paired gabled dormers rising from wallhead; large
drum tower at NE linked by single bay with corniced
entrance drum tower rises above wallhead, with decorative
corbelling to upper part, 2 gabled dormers in conical
bellcast roof which terminates with large metal
ventilator and windvane. Some bipartites; mainly simple
4-pane glazing to narrow windows; centre ridge cluster
stack; bellcast slate roofs; apex finials.
Milking parlour; mid 19th century long, low single storey
and loft rectangular building with centre (south) entrance
under bracketted canopy forming balcony to loft in attic.
Harl pointed rubble; contrasting tooled sandstone
dressings. Single windows, set high, flank centre door.
Short, single storey, single bay wings project to flank
south gable, with narrow slit windows and end doors.
Shallow jerkin headed slate roof with deep joisted eaves.
Large door slapped in west elevation. Gutted internally.
Style of George Devey, mid 19th Century.

Statement of Interest

Drum tower probably former dairy.

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