Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

TARBAT HOUSE AND STABLES.LB7848

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
A
Date Added
25/03/1971
Local Authority
Highland
Planning Authority
Highland
Parish
Kilmuir Easter
NGR
NH 77013 73611
Coordinates
277013, 873611

Description

Probably James McLeran, Edinburgh, 1787. Austere classical mansion: fine tooled ashlar, polished ashlar dressings; harled rear. 3 storeys and attic, 7 bays. Slightly advanced pedimented centre 3 bays with centre corniced and pilastered doorpiece in ground floor; double leafed panelled door; band course above; (later side entrance in projecting porch at east elevation). Long corniced 1st floor windows linked by moulded cill band to similar windows in 3-bay east and west return elevations; smaller windows in 2nd floor; moulded architect to all windows except in rear. Rear elevation; slightly advanced outer 2 bays; centre tripartite 1st floor half landing; Venetian window in similar position, 2nd floor, both lighting stair well; cill bands to both.

12-pane glazing throughout, 6-pane to 2nd floor windows (4 right windows, 2nd floor front, replaced by casements) 2 segmental headed dormers, front, 3 similar in east and west. Moulded and dentilled eaves cornice; some original fluted lead rain water pipes; 4 symmetrical corniced stacks; shallow piended platform slate roof. Interior; fluted columned and pilastered stairwell and landings; cast-iron stair balusters with palmette detailing; decorative plaster ceilings and cornices; panelled doors and window shutters.

Stable and carriage house; to rear of mansion, 6-bay stable and carriage house; harled with ashalr margins; originally symmetrical 5 bays, with centre pedimented bay with round-headed carriage entrance and roundheaded loft door above, flanked by 2 long similarly detailed windows; additional pedimented bay added to east gable, detailed as before; blank round-heade margined recess in east gable; piended slate roof. No interior fittings.

Statement of Special Interest

Includes some fragments of original New Tarbat House, built by Sir George Mackenzie, Viscount Tarbat, circa 1690.

References

Bibliography

THE STATISTICAL ACCOUNT, vi, pp. 186-7. THE NEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT, xiv, (c.1838) pp305-6. Howard Colvin, A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS (1979) p.533. National Monuments Record of Scotland.

About Listed Buildings

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