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Latitude: 58.3698 / 58°22'11"N
Longitude: -3.1432 / 3°8'35"W
OS Eastings: 333224
OS Northings: 942938
OS Grid: ND332429
Mapcode National: GBR L6LL.YP7
Mapcode Global: WH6DT.PWFJ
Entry Name: Mains of Ulbster,chambered cairn 900m NNW of
Scheduled Date: 27 September 1934
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM466
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: chambered cairn
Location: Wick
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Wick and East Caithness
Traditional County: Caithness
Later 19th century. 3-storey 3-bay villa with Scottish 17th century details. Stugged coursed cream sandstone ashlar with bull-faced margins and quoins, and some polished dressings; whinstone secondary elevations. Chamfered arrises; steeply pitched gableheads to S elevation.
S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: at centre, boarded door with wrought-iron hinges and rectangular plate glass fanlight; consoled pediment; window at 1st floor; 2nd floor window breaking eaves with pedimented dormerhead; rose finial. RIght bay with bipartite windows at ground and 1st floors; 2nd floor window as above;thistle finial. Left bay with 2-storey canted ashlar window, corbelled to square at 2nd floor and gabled; window framed by shafts with annulets, and segmental pediment with finials.
E AND W ELEVATIONS: ground and 2nd floors with windows to centre and N bays; 1st floor with window at centre.
Timber sash and case 4-pane windows (plate glass to canted windows). Purple slates; ashlar coped skews; corbelled kneeler skewputts with finials; coped apex stacks.
BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: whinstone wall with saddleback ashlar coping. Ashlar gatepiers with chamfered arrises and flattened pyramidal coping.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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