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Latitude: 57.08 / 57°4'48"N
Longitude: -4.047 / 4°2'49"W
OS Eastings: 276019
OS Northings: 800642
OS Grid: NH760006
Mapcode National: GBR JBC0.BX7
Mapcode Global: WH4JH.T90P
Plus Code: 9C9Q3XJ3+25
Entry Name: Pitmain House, Kingussie Highland Folk Museum, Duke Street, Kingussie
Listing Name: Duke Street, Highland Folk Museum, Former Pitmain Lodge
Listing Date: 5 October 1971
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 381014
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB36270
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200381014
Location: Kingussie
County: Highland
Town: Kingussie
Electoral Ward: Badenoch and Strathspey
Traditional County: Inverness-shire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Circa 1790 with 1830-40 additions and alterations. 2-storey,
symmetrical 5-bay dwelling with earlier 19th century gabled
wing projecting at W.
Centre door masked by later single storey gabled porch;
single later flanking 1830-40 tripartites with wooden mullions.
Small 1st floor windows survive in bays 2 (blocked) and 4,
and are raised through wallhead in later 19th century
gabled dormers in bays 1, 3, 5. Mainly 2-, 9- or 12-pane
glazing.
Projecting gabled wing at W with tripartites in ground and
1st floor. 2-storey, 2-bay wing to rear.
End, ridge and wallhead stacks; slate roofs.
Am Fasgadh, The Highland Folk Museum, founded by Dr Isobel
Grant in Iona, 1935. Established at Kingussie circa 1950.
Pitmain Lodge was Factor's House for Duke of Gordon's planned
town of Kingussie sited at former settlement of Pitmain.
Grounds of museum contain various reconstructed vernacular
buildings, including a Lewis House, click mill and salmon
smoking house.
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