WATCH: Work at Boleskine House near Loch Ness work well under way
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A video shared by the Boleskine House Foundation shows just how far the project has come since the trustees were granted listed building consents for remedial works last month.
The work to remove the render from the fire-ravaged Georgian mansion house near Loch Ness, has been completed, and progress is now being made to dig drainage trenches at the property.
The house is owned by the Boleskine House Foundation, after being purchased in July 2019 by property developers Keith and Kyra Readdy.
The house was destroyed by fire in 2015 and again in 2019.
Mr Readdy said the future of the house, and its links to occultist Aleister Crowley and Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, would be as a “daytime” tourist attraction, ready to open in 2022.
Mr Readdy takes a tour of the house, while wife and fellow trustee Kyra Readdy holds the camera.
Mr Readdy, chairman of the Boleskine House Foundation, said four eight-tonne skips of concrete render had been already removed from the building.
Mr Readdy explains that a island in the courtyard of the building will be entirely removed.
The tour shows the extent of a fire that ravished the building in 2019, which has left scorch marks on the building.
Mrs Readdy said the removal of the render now allows people to see the original parts of the building and the extension added on by Archibald Fraser in the 1800s.
Speaking about the window into room nine, she said: "We are hoping to open the window up and make it sandstone instead of concrete."
The next job will be for scaffolding to be placed around the building to retain a chimney, for it to be repaired on site. The job will take around four weeks to complete.
The couple are trying to replace the roof with Scottish slate, and have already purchased Ballachullish slate for the roof, but are still looking for more.
