Skye, Flodigarry, Flora Macdonald's Cottage
Cottage (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Skye, Flodigarry, Flora Macdonald's Cottage
Classification Cottage (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Skye, Flodigarry Cottage; Flodigarry Hotel, Cottage To Rear
Canmore ID 11391
Site Number NG47SE 9
NGR NG 46407 71906
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/11391
- Council Highland
- Parish Kilmuir
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
Flodigarry (Hotel), Ross & Macbeth, 1892. One of Skye's substantial Victorian lodges sheltered by wooded policies beneath the massive basalt ramparts. Built for Maj. R. Macdonald, the crowstepped block of flinty rubble is 'offset' by a mock-fortified billiard room wing of 1895, decorated in the Moorish style. Major Macdonald was a descendant of Flora Macdonald, whose early married home here (from 1751-64) is probably the core of Flodigarry Cottage, a pair of dwellings now largely 19th century, refurbished late 20th century.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2007. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk