What is recorded here

Skibo Castle's gardener's house stands in Sutherland as a post-medieval cottage, marked kennels on the first survey map. It belongs to the castle estate, not a separate domain. The distinction between keeping dogs and growing food may have blurred in that household, where one pair of hands served both masters.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Skibo Castle, Gardener's House as Cottage (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Skibo Castle, Gardener's House is associated with Skibo Castle, which was built in the 19th century by Sir Robert McAlister, later 1st Baron Seaforth, as a private residence. The gardener's house is remembered as part of the estate's historic landscape and reflects the architectural and social structures of Highland estate life.

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