It's the lone surviving building on the battlefield of Culloden and may even have been the refuge of the real-life person who served as the inspiration for Sam Heughan's character Jamie in Outlander.
Old Leanach cottage still stands sentinel on the battlefield where, in 1745, the Jacobite dream of restoring the Stuarts to the throne ended as the Jacobite army was decisively routed by a British government force.
During the battle itself, it reportedly sat on the side of the government lines and may even have served as a field building for the wounded.
Most importantly, many cite it as the building (or at least one of its now lost out buildings) that was mentioned by Eric Linklater in his book The Prince in the Heather.
Telling the story of how Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, fled the country after the disastrous defeat at Culloden, it references how around 20 wounded Jacobites came to take refuge in a farmhouse after the battle.
Diana Gabaldon told the National Geographic in 2014, that while reading the book as part of her research for Outlander, she was inspired by this passage which states that after two days, the wounded Jacobites were taken out and shot, except one man, "a Fraser of the Master of Lovet's regiment", who survived the slaughter.
She revealed that it made her realise that if she expected Jamie to survive Culloden then his "last name better be Fraser" - (she'd already been inspired to call him Jamie after a Dr Who character ).
The stoic little cottage with its stone walls, small windows and thatched roof, was inhabited until 1912.
It was donated to the National Trust of Scotland in 1944 by Hector Forbes, the local land owner.
The NTS then used it as their original visitor centre for the battlefield, even restoring the roof to its former glory to make it even more historically accurate.
According to the conservation charity, the thatching was made from heather sourced from the battlefield and built by local tradesmen.
It was eventually closed in the early 2000s when the new modern visitor centre was opened, it is now a temporary exhibition space for visitors to discover more about Culloden’s heritage.
