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Latitude: 57.7871 / 57°47'13"N
Longitude: -3.8599 / 3°51'35"W
OS Eastings: 289514
OS Northings: 879019
OS Grid: NH895790
Mapcode National: GBR J8V4.DMD
Mapcode Global: WH4F3.PJ4N
Plus Code: 9C9RQ4PR+V2
Entry Name: Geanies Point, Geanies House
Listing Name: Geanies House Summer House
Listing Date: 25 March 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 347389
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB14106
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Geanies House, Geanies Point
ID on this website: 200347389
Location: Tarbat
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Tain and Easter Ross
Parish: Tarbat
Traditional County: Ross-shire
Tagged with: Holiday home Summer house
Circa 1800; hexagonal single storey summer house, harled with
ashlar margins. Entrnce with double panelled doors on landward
side, with large re-used marriage stone as lintel, dated 1760.
3 windows to seaward side checked for external shutters, for
which hooks remain; 12-pane glazing. Small margined wallhead
stack; pyramidal slate roof with ball finial and weathervane.
Short rubble quadrants flank centre seaward bay, with ashlar
copes. Simple plastered interior with moulded fire place with
panelled overmantel. Stone slab floors.
Sited in wooded policies on cliff edge. Said to have served as
a light house, but more likely as a lookout and gazebo, and
also said to have been a landmark for shipping before being
masked by trees. Marriage stone dated 1760, has initials
H ML and I F, with centre sun motif and coats of arms.
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