Kinlochmoidart House and grounds
The 18th century owners of Kinlochmoidart House were staunch Jacobites who played an active role in the 1745 Uprising. Bonnie Prince Charlie stayed at Kinlochmoidart House before travelling via Dalilea and Loch Shiel to Glenfinnan where he raised his standard. Following the defeat at Culloden, Donald MacDonald of Kinlochmoidart was executed and the estates forfeited to the Crown. The house at Kinlochmoidart was burned in 1746. Further information about the involvement of the Kinlochmoidart McDonalds with Bonnie Prince Charlie can be found here: www.moidart.org.uk/datasets/bpc01.htm.
Kinlochmoidart was rebuilt in the early 1800s, and then substantially enlarged in 1884 in Scottish baronial style for Robert Stewart, a distiller and the great grandfather of the present owner Mrs Nino Stewart. The building and its interior were designed by the Glaswegian architect William Leiper. At the time Mrs Stewart inherited the house, it was in very poor condition and under threat of demolition. Despite being almost entirely uninhabitable due to damp and decay -- to the extent that every one of its fifty rooms was significantly affected by wet or dry rot -- Kinlochmoidart still retained its original decoration and furnishings, severely damaged but remarkably unaltered.
In probably the largest exercise of its kind in Scotland, the dry rot was successfully tackled in an ecological manner without the use of any chemical treatment. Spread over many phases, the house was painstakingly restored with the help of grants from Historic Scotland. The work included the restoration of original hand-printed, hand-embossed and hand-stencilled wallpapers, and the retention of switches and other parts of the original electrical installation. Kinlochmoidart has now been carefully subdivided to form four houses. These, and the buildings in the grounds are available for self-catering holiday lets. The ground floor of the main house is Mrs Stewart's home.
Kinlochmoidart House and grounds
The 18th century owners of Kinlochmoidart House were staunch Jacobites who played an active role in the 1745 Uprising. Bonnie Prince Charlie stayed at Kinlochmoidart House before travelling via Dalilea and Loch Shiel to Glenfinnan where he raised his standard. Following the defeat at Culloden, Donald MacDonald of Kinlochmoidart was executed and the estates forfeited to the Crown. The house at Kinlochmoidart was burned in 1746. Further information about the involvement of the Kinlochmoidart McDonalds with Bonnie Prince Charlie can be found here: www.moidart.org.uk/datasets/bpc01.htm.
Kinlochmoidart was rebuilt in the early 1800s, and then substantially enlarged in 1884 in Scottish baronial style for Robert Stewart, a distiller and the great grandfather of the present owner Mrs Nino Stewart. The building and its interior were designed by the Glaswegian architect William Leiper. At the time Mrs Stewart inherited the house, it was in very poor condition and under threat of demolition. Despite being almost entirely uninhabitable due to damp and decay -- to the extent that every one of its fifty rooms was significantly affected by wet or dry rot -- Kinlochmoidart still retained its original decoration and furnishings, severely damaged but remarkably unaltered.
In probably the largest exercise of its kind in Scotland, the dry rot was successfully tackled in an ecological manner without the use of any chemical treatment. Spread over many phases, the house was painstakingly restored with the help of grants from Historic Scotland. The work included the restoration of original hand-printed, hand-embossed and hand-stencilled wallpapers, and the retention of switches and other parts of the original electrical installation. Kinlochmoidart has now been carefully subdivided to form four houses. These, and the buildings in the grounds are available for self-catering holiday lets. The ground floor of the main house is Mrs Stewart's home.