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Summary

Description

Sydney Mitchell, dated 1889. Some early 20th century

additions and alterations, Scottish Renaissance detail.

2-storey and attic, asymmetrical 4-bay north facing house.

Red harled, contrasting painted tooled ashlar dressings.

Near centre door under corniced, segmentally pedimented

doorpiece with port-hole light right; entrance sheltered by

early 20th century slated canopy linking angle drum tower at

right (west) to early 20th century projecting square

tripartite bay window at left (east); decorative wooden

struts and trellis work support canopy. Round drum tower

rises full height, terminating in slated, bellcast domed roof

with lead finials. 2 dormers heads break eaves under shaped

gablets with long 4-light window between. 2 diminutive swept

dormers in roof. Canted single storey wing at east gable

(former observatory) early 20th century single storey and

attic, 2-bay wing to

rear, also with shaped gabletted dormerhead; canted bay

window with centre glazed door to rear; diminutive gable

attic windows; multi-pane glazing; ground and 1st floor

windows linked by moulded string course. Original rainwater

goods; margined, coped end stacks; crowsteps; slate roofs.

Statement of Special Interest

High Level Meteorological Observatory (also designed by S.

Mitchell, but now ruinous) operated on summit of Ben Nevis

from 1883-1904, linked by telegraph with Low Level

Observatory which operated 1889-1904. Both establishments

directed by Scottish Meteorological Society, Edinburgh. Low

Level Observatory built with funds raised during Edinburgh

Exhibition 1886 and donations, on land feued by Cameron of

Lochiel.

Sandstone dressings (now mostly painted) said to have been

brought from Moray via the Caledonian Canal.

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