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Latitude: 57.1894 / 57°11'21"N
Longitude: -7.4062 / 7°24'22"W
OS Eastings: 73541
OS Northings: 823914
OS Grid: NF735239
Mapcode National: GBR 893Q.GGB
Mapcode Global: WGV43.6KGF
Plus Code: 9C9J5HQV+PG
Entry Name: Askernish House, South Uist
Listing Name: Askernish House, Garden Walls and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 5 October 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 352927
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB18780
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200352927
Location: South Uist
County: Na h-Eileanan Siar
Electoral Ward: Barraigh, Bhatarsaigh, Eirisgeigh agus Uibhist a Deas
Parish: South Uist
Traditional County: Inverness-shire
Tagged with: House
Built 1835. 2-storey 3-bay farmhouse with gabled,
full-height, single bay, rear wing. Harled, with contrasting
painted ashlar margins. West elevation: piended central porch
with door in re-entrant angle. 12-pane sash and case windows
(4-pane central 1st floor). Single bay flanks. Symmetrically
placed axial stacks; piended slate roof. Modern sun lounge
to south east.
Set within quadrangular garden enclosure; rubble-built
gatepiers and walls, latter partly renewed in brick towards
east beside modern office; square gatepiers to west with
pyramidal caps.
Letting advertisement dated 1844 held in Lochboisdale Hotel
describes Askernish House as "lately ... erected". Former
Steading (1846) ranges to east not included in listing.
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