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Latitude: 57.3307 / 57°19'50"N
Longitude: -4.6311 / 4°37'51"W
OS Eastings: 241704
OS Northings: 829746
OS Grid: NH417297
Mapcode National: GBR G9YB.TP1
Mapcode Global: WH2DS.T0XJ
Plus Code: 9C9Q89J9+7H
Entry Name: Shewglie, Glenurquhart
Listing Name: Glenurquhart, Shewglie
Listing Date: 5 October 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 348519
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB15015
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Glenurquhart, Shewglie
ID on this website: 200348519
Location: Urquhart and Glenmoriston
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Aird and Loch Ness
Parish: Urquhart And Glenmoriston
Traditional County: Inverness-shire
Tagged with: House
Dated 1762. 2-storey, symmetrical 3-bay house with advanced
central gabled bay. Harled with polished ashlar margins. To
rear, later 19th century 2-storey, 3-bay wing projects, also
harled with ashlar dressings. Further recent 2-storey, 2-bay
flat roofed, harled wing at W gable of original house. Original
house with centre entrance; open pedimented doorpiece with
inscription, marriage stone and lugged, keystoned and moulded architraves; 6-panelled door. Centre window above and occulus
in gable; 12-pane glazing to margined windows; simple eaves
cornice; re-cut crowsteps; margined and re-coped end stacks;
slate roof.
Later 19th century wing to rear with pair 1st floor windows
rising through wallhead under finialled gablets; decorative
finial at N gable apex.
Interior; little original work survives except some simple
moulded ceiling cornices in ground floor front rooms of
earliest dwelling. Modern decoration and casing probably
masks scale and plat staircase.
Inscription in pediment reads; "1762 Built by Jas. Grant and
Majy. Fraser of Shewglie." Further marriage stone inscribed;
17 IG MF 62.
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