Letterfinlay
Farmhouse (Period Unassigned), Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Inn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Letterfinlay
Classification Farmhouse (Period Unassigned), Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Inn (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Former Inn
Canmore ID 108799
Site Number NN29SE 3
NGR NN 25273 91467
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/108799
- Council Highland
- Parish Kilmonivaig
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
Letterfinlay Kingshouse, c.1776 -80 House/inn of similar format to others on Wade's military routes, with small first floor windows tucked up beneath eaves and lower range to south. It became the house for Letterfinlay estate until a Victorian shooting lodge was built in 1876. An earlier 18th-century predecessor, home of the MacMartins, was certainly in use as an inn by 1770, and had in turn replaced a 'hutt'.
[In 1799 the Hon. Mrs Murray noted 'a small green patch bordered by birch and alders' at the door of the Letterfinlay Inn, which Robert Southey described in 1819 as 'much improved of late [though] it is not easy to believe that it can ever have been dirtier or more uncomfortable than it is now'.]
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2007. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk