Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

ACHANY HOUSELB8016

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
18/03/1971
Local Authority
Highland
Planning Authority
Highland
Parish
Lairg
NGR
NC 56909 1838
Coordinates
256909, 901838

Description

Late 18th/early 19th century with mid 19th century

additions and further late 19th century rear extensions.

Symmetrical 3-storey, 5-bay frontage the outer bays

projecting as circular drum towers. All harled with

tooled ashlar margins and dressings. Centre 3 bays appear

to form original core, with centre door with panelled

pilasters and door, and decorative fanlight. Mid-later

19th century bowed outer bays rising full height and

terminating in conical slate roofs with finials. 5

pedimented dormers rise through wallhead, the centre having

decorative detailing and ball finials; deep eaves band.

Canted ground floor bay window in each return elevation,

at east with flight of steps with decorative cast-iron

balustrade.

Former E-plan rear in-filled in late 19th century,

presenting 5-gabled north elevation (centre rear gabled bay

is stair well), fronted by further 2-storey, 5-bay

symmetrical wing, with 1st floor windows breaking eaves

under barge-boarded gables. Mainly 12-pane glazing; corniced

end and ridge stacks; slate roof.

Interior: curved ended parlours flank centre entrance hall

with contemporary pannelled doors and window shutters;

bowed panelled cupboard doors and decorative plaster friezes.

Mid 19th century long narrow dining and drawing rooms flank

centre 3-bay portion.

Statement of Special Interest

House plans in possession of present owner show thick,

outside walls, between centre 3 and outer bays, the

the additional outer bays being long and narrow drawing

and dining rooms in ground floor. Seat of Munro's, and later

Rose's of Achany. Purchased by Sir James Matheson in 1840

(see Matheson Memorial, Lairg). East and west canted bay

windows appear on 1st ed. OS, 1874, but not rear additions.

References

Bibliography

THE STATISTICAL ACCOUNT (1791-3) (1979 ed.) p.454.

NEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT, 15, (1834) p.62.

Groome's ORDNANCE GAZETTEER OF SCOTLAND, iv, (1885)

p.451.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

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