View of cottage and concrete shed from South West.

Description View of cottage and concrete shed from South West.

Date 16/3/1998

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number D 23926 CN

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 742282

Scope and Content Cottage and shed, Sibster Mains Farm, Highland, from south-west Sibster Mains Farm has a large steading arranged around a square courtyard, dating variously from the late 18th century to the mid- to late 19th century and into the 20th century. It is thus a fine example of agricultural development through three centuries and is particularly notable for its 18th-century kiln barn. This shows a 19th-century farm workers' cottage and, behind, a 20th-century concrete shed viewed from the south-west. The cottage is single-storeyed with an attic lit by small skylight windows in the corrugated metal roof, which was probably originally covered by local slate. Caithness landowners were providing allowances of between 12 shillings and £10 to 'new settlers' in Hilliclay, Sordale, Sibster, Harpsdale, Giese, Halkirk and Janetstoun amounting to £336 in total. Most of these incomers had been displaced from communal farms elsewhere and were expected to develop small areas of hill or moss into crofts. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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