View of threshing barn from North-East.

Description View of threshing barn from North-East.

Date 20/6/1994

Catalogue Number C 44454

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 743463

Scope and Content Threshing barn and implement shed, Wester Kittochside Farm, South Lanarkshire, from north-east Wester Kittochside Farm is a rare example of a farm whose buildings span three centuries of agricultural change from the late 18th-century improvement period to modern times. Recent developments, however, have hardly touched it and the farm, gifted to The National Trust for Scotland in 1992 and now supporting the Museum of Scottish Country Life, is rare in having such intact examples of original buildings. This shows the threshing barn and implement shed from the north-east. Note the three ledges above the sliding double doors of the barn, suggesting this was once a dovecot or pigeon loft. Adjoining the barn (left) is the gig shed, latterly a garage. To the right of the barn one can just see the remains of the horse engine in the field (far right). The early 19th century brought single-storeyed infills at the junctions of the three original buildings - a lean-to gig shed at the north end of the stable and a bothy (a single room to house batchelor farm servants) linking the house and the small byre. The bothy was used as a tack room in the early 20th century, and to house prisoners of war who worked on the farm during World War II. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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