Basic Site Details Name: | House for J T Mackenzie of Kintail | Town, district or village: | Loch Dinch | City or county: | Ross and Cromarty | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | Unexecuted | Grid ref: | | Notes: | KINTAIL, ROSS-SHIRE. - This illustration is of a house for J T Mackenzie, Esq, of Kintail, designed for the picturesque neighbourhood of Loch Dinch, in Ross-shire. The house occupies three sides of a court-yard, in the centre of which is the entrance door. The stables forming one side. Owing to the difficulty of obtaining skilled labour in this remote locality the design is kept studiously plain. A large ballroom at one end of the building is for entertainments to the tenants. [Building News 4 July 1879 page 8]
Kintail was one of two Scottish estates purchased by James Thompson Mackenzie, the son of an Aberdeen silk mercer, who in 1838 went out to an indigo plantation in India where he made a very substantial fortune. In his later years, he became “a persistent cultivator of royalty”, frequently entertaining the Prince of Wales. His caricature, by Lib, appeared in Vanity Fair 23 March 1889. He was created 1st Baronet Mackenzie, of Glenmuick, on 21 March 1890 but he died in Brighton less than five months later. At his Glenmuick estate, Aberdeenshire, he built a substantial mansion to the designs of Sir Morton Peto - see separate item. | Building Type ClassificationThe building is classified under the following categories: | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes | | Country House | | |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes | | 1879 | | Journal reference | |
PeopleDesign and ConstructionThe following individuals or organisations have carried out design/construction work. Where architects or practices worked together, matching letters appear beside their names in the Partnership Group column. | | Name | Role | Partnership Group | From | To | Notes | | Ernest George | | A | 1879 | | | | Ernest George & Peto | | A | 1879 | | | | Harold Ainsworth Peto | | A | 1879 | | |
ClientsThe following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design: | | Name | Notes | | Mackenzie, J T - of Kintail | |
ReferencesPeriodical ReferencesThe following periodicals contain references to this building: | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | | Building News | 4 July 1879 | | | p8 and illustration |
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