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Latitude: 58.296 / 58°17'45"N
Longitude: -3.3064 / 3°18'22"W
OS Eastings: 323518
OS Northings: 934898
OS Grid: ND235348
Mapcode National: GBR L66S.VGZ
Mapcode Global: WH6F4.5RS2
Plus Code: 9CCR7MWV+CC
Entry Name: Swiney House
Listing Name: Swiney House
Listing Date: 13 April 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 340041
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB8003
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200340041
Location: Latheron
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Wick and East Caithness
Parish: Latheron
Traditional County: Caithness
Tagged with: House
Mid-18th century, 2-storey and attic, symmetrical 5-bay
house. Harled, painted reveals, ashlar margins and dressings.
Centre pedimented and keystoned doorpiece with long and
short detailing to jambs masked by modern flat roofed
glazed porch. Centre bay rises into shaped attic pediment,
with keystoned round-headed window with blocked imposts and
centre apex stack. Outer windows slightly paired (right of
centre door, ground floor window blind). 2 ground, 1 1st
floor window in east gable, 1 ground and 1 1st floor in
west; paired attic windows in both gables; 8-pane glazing.
Chamfered ashlar quoins; moulded eaves cornice; diminutive
scroll skewputts to rear; panelled end stacks; slurried
Caithness slate roof. Rear projecting gabled stairwell
rises to ridge height with later flanking single storey wings
with cat-slide roofs.
Interior; scale and plat staircase framed by round-headed
keystoned pair arches (right arch leads to rear passage) in
entrance hall.
Patrick Mowat "as of Swinzie" in 1638. Swiney purchased
by Charles Gordon of Swiney (formerly of Pulrossie, Creich,
Sutherland from Patrick Sinclair Sutherland for $5,500 (no
date given by J Henderson.)
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