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Latitude: 57.8231 / 57°49'23"N
Longitude: -5.1799 / 5°10'47"W
OS Eastings: 211245
OS Northings: 885946
OS Grid: NH112859
Mapcode National: GBR F8L1.G38
Mapcode Global: WH18W.DMLK
Plus Code: 9C9PRRFC+72
Entry Name: Dundonnell House
Listing Name: Dundonnell House
Listing Date: 25 March 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 339729
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB7756
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200339729
Location: Lochbroom
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Wester Ross, Strathpeffer and Lochalsh
Parish: Lochbroom
Traditional County: Ross-shire
Tagged with: House
Dated 1767. Tall 2-storey and attic house, (raised probably
circa 1816) 5 bays with centre door in main SE elevation;
early 19th century 2-storey, 3-bay wing to rear raised and
extended circa 1960; all harled with ashlar margins to
doorways. Centre door in SE front with chamfered jambs
and datestone above; 5 late 19th century piended dormers
rise through wallhead. Doorway in NE elevation: 3 ground
floor, 4 1st floor windows; 3 piended dormers, also late
19th century; 12-pane glazing throughout. Corniced end
and ridge stacks; slate roofs.
Interior; remoulded circa 1816, wide stair inserted,
simple but good acanthus cornice details in main rooms
also reeded door architraves and beaded shutters. Peat-
grates in engaged column and corniced 19th century
chimneypieces.
Estate of Dundonnell inherited in 1816 by Kenneth Mackenzie
who built and stocked walled garden, "improved his mansion
house", built "hundreds of yards of stone dikes ..... and
in every way beautified and adorned his romantic little
strath". Mackenzie died (before 1835) aged 21, and the estate
was sold to clear his debts. Datestone of 1767 bears
Mackenzie stag. Front garden separated from road by drystone
wall with traditional sheep fencing running through raised
and pierced coping slabs.
Grouped at A because an unusually complete example of a
laird's house in the west of the Highlands. Considerable
local historical interest.
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