Roskhill House Guest House
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Built in 1890, an opportunity to experience Bed and Breakfast accommodation in a unique old croft house nestling in a tranquil country setting.
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Roskhill
Dunvegan
IV558ZD
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Roskhill House Guest House is a traditional croft house in a tranquil setting. Rooms are ensuite, with TVs, fridges, wifi, and tea and coffee making facilities. Tea, coffee and freshly home made cakes are served in the guest lounge every afternoon.
Roskhill House is a very very early “white house” type of working croft house and was built around 1890 after the Napier Commission & Crofters Act of 1886 provided security of tenure. The house helped set the simple functional architectural style for the Island and is known as a 1¾ storey style with upstairs rooms having coombed (part sloping) ceilings. Originally, most rooms would have had small simple fireplaces and the walls and ceilings would have been lined with tongue and groove wooden slats. This offered little in the way of “quaintness” or insulation to conserve heat and gave the rooms a rather stark appearance. There was no electricity and little indoor washing facilities.
Over 125 years the house and its use has evolved. By 1910 an extension to the house had become the Harlosh Post Office and village store; today, this forms the guest lounge, retaining exposed stone walls. As they became available more modern facilities such as electricity were installed. About 50 years ago the fireplaces were bricked up as more efficient and far less labour intensive methods of heating the house were becoming commonplace. Dunvegan was expanding and became the principle village in the area as roads and transport improved.
Therefore in the early 1970’s the house evolved to become a Guest House. Around this time the old wooden slats needed to be replaced; more modern materials were used and gave a lighter airier feel to the rooms. For the first time, insulation material was added. Past and present renovations have kept the general feel of modest simplicity, whilst conforming to current building regulations.
