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Dunrobin Wood,broch 600m north west of,Dunrobin Mains

A Scheduled Monument in East Sutherland and Edderton, Highland

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Coordinates

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

Description

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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Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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