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Latitude: 57.5979 / 57°35'52"N
Longitude: -4.4226 / 4°25'21"W
OS Eastings: 255310
OS Northings: 859020
OS Grid: NH553590
Mapcode National: GBR H8GM.T2J
Mapcode Global: WH3DP.1986
Plus Code: 9C9QHHXG+5W
Entry Name: Monument To Roderick Maclennan, Dingwall Castle, Castle Street, Dingwall
Listing Name: Castle Street, the Castle and Roderick Maclennan Monument
Listing Date: 25 March 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 360458
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB24499
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200360458
Location: Dingwall
County: Highland
Town: Dingwall
Electoral Ward: Dingwall and Seaforth
Traditional County: Ross-shire
Tagged with: Monument
House; dated 1821. Square castellated house of 2 storeys
over raised basement, 3 wide bays. Rubble, tooled ashlar
dressings. Slightly advanced centre bay, advanced centre porch
with angle pilasters linked by low cast-iron balustrade and
round-headed entrance with recessed panelled door; round-headed
window in centre 1st floor with multi-pane glazing; 12-pane
glazing elsewhere (some blind windows) 2 windows each floor
and wide chimney breast on return elevations; coped angle
pilasters at each corner, which together with coped end
stacks rise above wallhead incorporated with wallhead
crenellation. Piended platform slate roof. Interior;
original staircase and chimney pieces, door pieces and plaster
ceiling cornices.
Monument by Hinchliffe, Hampstead Road London. Square marble
plinth on 2-stepped square platform; cusped panels to each
face, with inscription dedicated to Roderick MacLennan and
carving of Brig "Dart" such 1805. Coped rubble garden wall.
Datestone on inner face arch over the porch. I Smar<> print of
18<> shows centre rear crenellated tower rising above roof line,
at Foulis Castle, though smaller. Understood to have been
removed after fire damage. House appears on Wood's 1821 map
of Dingwall as belonging to Cpt MacLennan John Hinchliffe
the younger one of a family of London monumental sculptors.
Ruins of old Dingwall Castle, a small group of ivy covered
fragments stand within garden.
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