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Latitude: 58.5574 / 58°33'26"N
Longitude: -3.906 / 3°54'21"W
OS Eastings: 289201
OS Northings: 964831
OS Grid: NC892648
Mapcode National: GBR J6Q3.HKB
Mapcode Global: WH49D.Z55P
Plus Code: 9CCRH34V+XJ
Entry Name: Garden House, Bighouse
Listing Name: Bighouse, Garden Pavilion and Walled Garden
Listing Date: 3 August 1977
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 338969
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB7160
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Bighouse, Garden House
ID on this website: 200338969
Location: Farr
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: North, West and Central Sutherland
Parish: Farr
Traditional County: Sutherland
Tagged with: Garden house
Garden pavilion; mid-18th century, small square 2-storey, 3-bay garden pavilion. Harl pointed rubble, polished ashlar dressings and margins.
West facing front facade with centre door and small margined flanking windows; similarly detailed taller windows in 1st floor outer bays; 9- and 12-pane glazing. Ashlar quoins; eaves band; tall centre margined and corniced wallhead stack; fluted end dies with ball finials; pyramidal slate roof with salmon weather-vane (carved wood salmon) 1st floor door in south gable reached by forestair (masked from front view by garden wall); both door and centre 1st floor window blocked; small lean-to at rear (east), corniced wallhead rear stack.
Interior; bolection moulded chimneypiece in ground floor chamber; interior gutted.
Walled garden; high coped rubble garden walls flank pavilion; pair mid 18th century square chanelled ashlar gate piers, with cornice and square cap, in centre of west wall, opposite pavilion. Pair plain cast-iron gates.
Gate piers aligned with pair in east wall close to mansion.
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