This house and a MacKillop house in Creignish are the only two houses
which remotely pass for Scottish architecture in the county of Inverness.
The one in Creignish is modeled on a post 1820s thatched croft house.
This house resembles the East Cost architecture of Scotland with the so
called Scottish dormers (on this side, common only in Pictou, Nova
Scotia). It is constructed of sandstone, not wood!

Chan ionann ailtireachd an siorramachd InbhirNis agus an Albainn—ach
a mhàin an tigh seo agus tigh Chloinn ‘ic Gilp ann an Creiginis. Chaidh
tigh Chreiginis a chumadh air tigh tughaidh a bhiodh air croit as dèidh
1820. Tha’n tigh seo coltach ri ailtireachd a’Chladaich an Ear an Albainn
le chuid uinneagan mullaich ris an abrar dormairean Albannach’, ma’s
fhìor. (Chan eil iad seo cumanta air an taobh seo ach a mhàin am Pictou)
Sann air cloich a chaidh a thogail—chan ann air fiodh!

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