Old Shandwick House

Old Shandwick House is a large two-storey, three-bay house built between 1790 and 1805. Constructed of harled rubble with ashlar dressings, it was built for George Cockburn Ross of Berwickshire, who inherited Shandwick in 1790. The main façade features a large, projecting bowed bay with a corniced door in the centre, flanked by windows. The first floor of the bowed bay has three windows. The first floor of the outer bays contain keystoned Venetian windows, linked by a continuous cill band, with a deeper band course immediately below, and a further band at the wallhead. The wallhead is finished with margined crenellations. Other notable features include a projecting bowed rear stairwell, paired ridge stacks, a piended slate roof, and a large sliding door inserted into the west gable. The interior of the house was gutted at some point. References relating to early observations of the house appear in A General View of the Agriculture of the Counties of Ross and Cromarty by Sir George Stewart Mackenzie (1810) and A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland by Samuel Lewis (1846).