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Tillyochie Farmstead View of gin-house and farm buildings
SC 452618
Description Tillyochie Farmstead View of gin-house and farm buildings
Date 5/11/1974
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 452618
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Horse-engine house, Tillyochie Farm This building housed a horse-engine for driving a threshing mill in the adjacent barn. The engine consisted of a wooden framework fastened to a central vertical axle. A horse was harnessed to the framework and walked round, turning the axle. This view shows the polygonal engine house, with the threshing barn behind. Polygonal engine houses were common in the east of Scotland, where the common roofing material was pantiles. Horse engines fell out of use in the late 19th century, when mobile threshing mills powered by steam traction engines supplanted, in most instances barn threshing mills. The horse engine houses were then converted into stores, like this one. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H74/260/12
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