Monument to Roderick Maclennan, Dingwall Castle, Castle Street, Dingwall

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 25/03/1971 Local Authority Highland Planning Authority Highland Burgh Dingwall NGR NH 55336 59026 Coordinates 255336, 859026 — House; dated 1821. Square castellated house of 2 storeys over raised basement, 3 wide bays. Rubble, tooled ashlar dressings. Slightly advanced centre bay, advanced centre porch with angle pilasters linked by low cast-iron balustrade and round-headed entrance with recessed panelled door; round-headed window in centre 1st floor with multi-pane glazing; 12-pane glazing elsewhere (some blind windows) 2 windows each floor and wide chimney breast on return elevations; coped angle pilasters at each corner, which together with coped end stacks rise above wallhead incorporated with wallhead crenellation. Piended platform slate roof. Interior; original staircase and chimney pieces, door pieces and plaster ceiling cornices. Monument by Hinchliffe, Hampstead Road London. Square marble plinth on 2-stepped square platform; cusped panels to each face, with inscription dedicated to Roderick MacLennan and carving of Brig "Dart" such 1805. Coped rubble garden wall. — Datestone on inner face arch over the porch. I Smar<> print of 18<> shows centre rear crenellated tower rising above roof line, at Foulis Castle, though smaller. Understood to have been removed after fire damage. House appears on Wood's 1821 map of Dingwall as belonging to Cpt MacLennan John Hinchliffe the younger one of a family of London monumental sculptors. Ruins of old Dingwall Castle, a small group of ivy covered fragments stand within garden.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.