View of threshing barn from West.

Description View of threshing barn from West.

Date 20/6/1994

Catalogue Number C 44455

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 743466

Scope and Content Threshing barn and implement shed, Wester Kittochside Farm, South Lanarkshire, from west 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 west, with the remains of the hub of the open platform of the horse engine, visible in the foreground. A harness bar was attached to this hub, around which a horse walked and powered the threshing machine in the barn. The drive shaft went through the north wall of the barn and some of the workings still survive. The horse engine was replaced in 1860 by the present threshing machine. In some farms of this period the horse walks were enclosed in attractive round, conical-roofed buildings. There are some fascinating exhibits on old farming methods at the museum which was designed by Page & Park of Glasgow in the late 1990s and opened in 2001. This new exhibition building is south of the farm. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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