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Latitude: 57.99 / 57°59'23"N
Longitude: -3.9624 / 3°57'44"W
OS Eastings: 284078
OS Northings: 901765
OS Grid: NC840017
Mapcode National: GBR J7LL.TZL
Mapcode Global: WH4D3.3FFN
Entry Name: Dunrobin Wood,broch 600m NW of,Dunrobin Mains
Scheduled Date: 29 June 1939
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM1859
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: broch
Location: Golspie
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: East Sutherland and Edderton
Traditional County: Sutherland
Ruin. Central part severe rubble-built 3-storey, 3-
window, roofless; 2-storey Italianate S. addition, T-plan
harled with granite margins, broad-eaved low-pitched roof,
eaves belt course. Porte-cochere entrance tower on W.
with dome on pendentives, semi-circular arches with
continuous architraves, group of 3 round-arched windows
above each side and low pyramid roof with wide consoled
eaves; wooden conservatory in angle. 3-window bow on E.
gable. Finely composed and distinctively detailed. circa
1836. Office block on N. side of original house probably
of about same date, rubble-built twin curved gables with
cruciform chimneys.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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