The Power House ~ Rosehaugh Estate

In the early 1900s at Rosehaugh, a dam was built across the Goose burn to create a large lake for sporting and leisure purposes, and to enable hydro electricity to be generated on the Estate. The Power House was the generating station, while the Boat House was built purely for leisure.

The Power House stands downstream from the lake, and several feet lower. A flight of horseshoe shaped steps connecting the lake to the power station gave the name to the Horseshoe Falls, seen here in snow. The height difference provided the potential for generating hydro electricity.

Now category C(S) listed, the Power House originally consisted of two linked stone built rooms, the main room housing the turbines and the other room providing wet battery storage and a small workshop for maintaining the machinery.

The dam gave way in the 1940s, the lake was greatly reduced in size and no longer provided sufficient water flow to power the turbines. Like the Boat House, the disused Power House fell into disrepair. Being stone built it fared better than the Boat House, but nevertheless was little better than a ruin when the restoration project began in 2005.

The Power House now offers kitchen, lounge dining room, en-suite double bedroom, and twin single bedroom with separate bathroom. Click here or on the Accommodation button at the head of the page, for full details of the accommodation in the Power House.