Stately homes · Scottish Highlands
Boleskine House
Boleskine House — Manor on the south-east side of Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 2 h–4 h
- Family-friendly
- Limited wheelchair access
About
Boleskine House is a stately home in the United Kingdom. Records date its origin to 1760. Heritage designation: category B listed building. Wikidata describes it as: "Manor on the south-east side of Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands". Coordinates: 57.2653°, -4.4748°.
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Heritage listing
Boleskine House (Scottish Gaelic: Taigh Both Fhleisginn) is a manor on the south-east side of Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. It is notable for having been the home of author and occultist Aleister Crowley, and Led Zeppelin guitarist and producer Jimmy Page. It suffered significant fire damage in December 2015 and again in July 2019. The house's restoration and construction work began in December 2019. The Boleskine House Foundation SCIO took over ownership of one part of the estate in 2019 in order to manage restoration efforts on the house.
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From the Wikipedia article
Boleskine House (Scottish Gaelic: Taigh Both Fhleisginn) is a manor on the south-east side of Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. It is notable for having been the home of author and occultist Aleister Crowley, and Led Zeppelin guitarist and producer Jimmy Page. It suffered significant fire damage in December 2015 and again in July 2019. The house's restoration and construction work began in December 2019. The Boleskine House Foundation SCIO took over ownership of one part of the estate in 2019 in order to manage restoration efforts on the house. The restoration was completed and the house re-opened to the public in April 2026.
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Background
History
Boleskine House is 21 mi south of Inverness, on the opposite side of Loch Ness from the Meall Fuar-mhonaidh, and halfway between the villages of Foyers and Inverfarigaig. The area has a history of strange happenings long before Aleister Crowley moved in. The parish of Boleskine was formed in the 13th Century. A Kirk and graveyard were built in the parish around this time. A succession of Ministers ran Boleskine Parish and would travel the area on horseback or on foot in all weather conditions. Minister Thomas Houston (1648–1705) was said to have had the task of hastily laying animated corpses back in their graves after a devious local wizard had raised the dead in Boleskine graveyard.…
Visiting
Boleskine House is described and recognisable in W. Somerset Maugham's 1908 book The Magician where it is called "Skene". Crowley considered Maugham's book to be plagiarism and wrote an article under the name of Oliver Haddo (the name of a character taken from Maugham's book) for Vanity Fair as a reply.}} Jimmy Page's fantasy sequence in the 1976 Led Zeppelin concert film The Song Remains the Same was shot on the Boleskine House property. In Neil Spring's 2019 novel The Burning House, the house plays a major role.
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- Coordinates
- 57.2653, -4.4748
- District
- Highland
- Postcode
- IV2 6XT
- Parliamentary constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire
- Established
- 1760
- Official site
- boleskinehouse.co.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q1083190 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Boleskine House (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Boleskine house.png (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Boleskine House?
- Boleskine House is in the Scottish Highlands, United Kingdom (postcode IV2 6XT).
- When was Boleskine House built?
- Built or established in 1760.
- Is Boleskine House a listed building?
- Boleskine House is officially recognised as category B listed building listed.
- How do I get to Boleskine House?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode IV2 6XT. It sits within the Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire parliamentary constituency.