View from E of covered sheep dip and shed Photographic print filed in MS/744/106 Digital image of D 4018/4

Description View from E of covered sheep dip and shed Photographic print filed in MS/744/106 Digital image of D 4018/4

Date 27/4/1994

Collection Scottish Farm Buildings Survey

Catalogue Number SC 742171

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 4018/4

Scope and Content Sheep dip and shed, Tongue Mains Farm, Highland, from east 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 covered sheep dip and shed from the east. The dipper shed has a flagstone floor, rubble masonry side walls 1m high, with wooden posts about 0.2m in diameter set into the walls. The roof is low-pitched of corrugated sheet metal on A-framed wooden couples. The shed behind is wooden-framed with wooden sides and a corrugated sheet metal roof. It was probably intended as an implement shed, but is now used as a fuel store. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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