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This is a mid-18th century, symmetrical house of two storeys and three bays, originally designed with a central doorway. The walls are constructed of harled rubble. The first-floor windows are small and positioned close to the eaves. The windows have a later pattern of four panes to each sash. Chimneys with coped stacks and “thack stanes” are at each end of the house, topped with a slate roof.

A single-storey byre range, four bays in length and whitewashed rubble construction, extends from the southwest gable; this has a corrugated iron roof.

The house is situated alongside a former military road, built under the direction of General Wade along the south shore of Loch Lochy, and completed around 1735. Records indicate that the house functioned as an inn by 1776. References to the origins of the military road can be found in J.B. Salmond’s “WADE IN SCOTLAND” (1934, page 124), and a map of roads in North Britain from 1776, Plate 60.