Culloden House Hotel

This fine Georgian mansion incorporates much of the original fortified house/castle within its structure. Built in an elegant style, it shows the influence, and actual handiwork, of John Adam, considered to be the pre-eminent architect of the late 19th century. In addition to the house having an obvious compatibility with John Adam’s neo-classical style, his influence on the design is buttressed by surviving letters showing him to be a friend and houseguest during this period.

 

This large country house hotel consists of a main block of three storeys joined by screened walls to two, two storey pavilions built over 12 vaulted cellars which appears to be the original first floor of the Scottish fortified house as the gun/bow ports would attest to. It was here the wounded Jacobite soldiers lay waiting their inescapable fate at the hands of "Butcher" Cumberland.

 

A sweeping staircase, leads to the main entrance which is crowned by a fine coat of arms with the house's principal rooms all being on the first floor level. Built between 1772 -1788, the surviving interior decoration shows how splendid the house must have been in it's Georgian heyday with delicate plasterwork, finely moulded Adam fireplaces and beautifully carved doorways. The rooms are all en-suite.