Moy House

Image: © Anne Burgess Taken: 25 Feb 2011

The House of Moy has had an unfortunate recent history. It has been the subject of numerous moves to restore it, involving threats of compulsory purchase, public funding and resistance to these by the owners. In 1995 it was largely destroyed by fire, and has lain derelict ever since, despite a variety of initiatives to do something about it. A category A listed building, it dates from the mid-18th century, the work of local stonemason Colin Williamson to a design by John Adam (1762), and was renovated in 1870 by Alexander Ross. It belonged to the family of Campbell of Cawdor, passed to the Grants of Castle Grant and then to various other owners. Colin Williamson went on to yet greater things. He was involved as a master mason in the construction of the Capitol in Washington DC, United States of America. Appointed superintendent of stonecutters in 1793 at a salary of £400, he was dismissed in 1795 for inefficiency before the completion of the basement of the north wing.

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