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Latitude: 57.9698 / 57°58'11"N
Longitude: -4.0001 / 4°0'0"W
OS Eastings: 281781
OS Northings: 899582
OS Grid: NH817995
Mapcode National: GBR J7HN.ND3
Mapcode Global: WH4D2.JYD5
Plus Code: 9C9QXX9X+WX
Entry Name: Sutherland Technical School, Golspie
Listing Name: Drummuie, Golspie Technical School
Listing Date: 7 March 1984
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 338850
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB7065
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Drummuie, Golspie Technical School
ID on this website: 200338850
Location: Golspie
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: East Sutherland and Edderton
Parish: Golspie
Traditional County: Sutherland
Tagged with: School building
J M Dick Peddie and Washington Browne, Dated 1903. Large
symmetrical educational building, wide 13-bay centre
portion with projecting wings creating U-plan. All rubble
with tooled dressings.
Slightly advanced centre 3 bays with central architraved
door and bracketted cornice supporting carved panel; 1st
floor window above with slim pilasters and clasping
obelisk, semi-circular pediment over entablature rising
into shaped gable with apex stack. Centre door approached
by shallow flight of steps flanked by windows in roll
moulded reveals. Bays 1-2, 4-5, 12-13, have paired
windows in both ground and 1st floors. Corbelled wallhead
parapet flanks centre shaped gable. 3 gabled dormers in
projecting wings face centre court; centre gablet flanked
by single box dormers.
Regular fenestration and gabletted dormers in east and
west elevations; 12-pane glazing; crowstepped gables;
ridge and wallhead stacks; slate roofs.
Interior; lofty rooms; wide staircase with simple
cast-iron handrail; panelled doors.
Plaque over door inscribed MFS and "Let there be light".
Built as a boarding technical school for the sons of
Highland crofters by Millicent Duchess of Sutherland.
The Duke of Sutherland donated the land on which the
school is built and $8,000; Andrew Carnegie gave $5,000.
Foundation stone laid by Lord Balfour of Burleigh, an
occasion attended by a large gathering of local land
owners and aristrocracy.
Building now serves as technical annexe to Golspie High
School.
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