View from NW showing horse-walk platform Photographic print filed in MS/744/106 Digital image of D 4017/23

Description View from NW showing horse-walk platform Photographic print filed in MS/744/106 Digital image of D 4017/23

Date 27/4/1994

Collection Scottish Farm Buildings Survey

Catalogue Number SC 742148

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 4017/23

Scope and Content Horse-walk platform, Tongue Mains Farm, Highland, from north-west Tongue Mains steading was built on the huge Sutherland estate which, by 1873, comprised almost 1.3 million acres, more than 90% of the county. It was built in 1843 to a design by Sir Charles Barry adapted by Alexander Coupar and was intended for use with the nearby Tongue House. This shows the horse-walk platform from the north-west. The platform is 0.8m above ground level with no trace of the horse engine left. This arrangement powered a threshing machine and was unusual as most of the other farms on the estate had waterwheels to power their threshing machines. The platform would always have been open and was 8.8m in diameter. Behind is the old threshing barn now converted to a byre. Horse-driven mills were often enclosed and used between one and six horses. As this is an open and raised platform, it is likely to have been suitable for just one horse. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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