Site type TERM PENDING
Canmore ID 13485
Site Number NH64NW 5
NGR NH 6217 4591
Council HIGHLAND
Parish KIRKHILL
Former Region HIGHLAND
Former District INVERNESS
Former County INVERNESS-SHIRE

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Archaeological Notes

NH64NW 5 6217 4591.

(NH 6217 4591) Bunchrew [NAT]
OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1905)

Bunchrew, owned by the Frasers of Lovat in the early part of the 16th Century, was bought from them by John or Duncan Forbes, the father of President Forbes, in 1670. There used to be a moat round the house; also a drawbridge, the last arch of which fell into ruins abaout 1839.
ISSFC 1885.

The present house of Bunchrew was built in 1615 (Infromation from J O A Fraser MacKenzie, Bunchrew) It is a plain rectangular building c. 22m x c. 8m with crow-stepped gables and harled walls. In the 19th cent., extensive additions were added to the original building on its north and south sides. There is now no trace of the moat and drawbridge mentioned by Inverness Scientific Fld Club.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 28 March 1962.

Residential House; designed landscape
17th century AD; built 1615.
CFA/MORA Coastal Assessment Survey 1998.

Architectural Notes

Architect: W. L. Carruthers - alterations and additions - 1896-97

ISSFC (1885e) 'Excursion to Moniack and Reelick Burn', Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club, vol.1
Page(s): 167

ISSFC (1926f) 'Excursion to Bunchrew', Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club, vol.9
Page(s): 245-6