View of cart-shed from South West.

Description View of cart-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 23942 CN

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 742291

Scope and Content Cart 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 the rear of the cart shed from the south-west showing the ventilation slits in the rubble masonry walls. There are six cart bays facing into the courtyard on the other side of the building. It was reckoned that one cart was needed per 50-70 acres of farmland. In 1884 a witness to the Crofters' Commission, James Waters of Bower, reported that in the reorganisation in Caithness to create 55 large arable farms, 1,000 small farmers had been evicted on to small subsistence crofts mostly on poor upland land where they had no capital for reclamation or stock buying. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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