Rosehaugh Today
Very little now survives of the great Rosehaugh mansion that once dominated the hillside above Avoch. The terraces, stairways and service buildings that remain stand where generations of Mackenzie lairds and later the Fletcher (James Jack) family reshaped the lands of Pittanochtie into an ambitious estate, before the house was finally demolished in the late 1950s.
The photographs on this page were taken during a 2009 visit to the site by Clan Jack Chief John Jack and David A. Jack, recording what is left of the mansion platform, garden structures and estate buildings. They sit alongside a researched history that traces Rosehaugh’s story from Sir George Mackenzie in the 1660s, through the Mackenzies of Scatwell, the rise of James Jack (later Fletcher) and his son James Douglas Fletcher, to the eventual sale, dispersal and clearance of the house and its contents in the mid twentieth century.
