View from W end of covered dipping shed Photographic print filed in MS/744/106 Digital image of D 4019/6

Description View from W end of covered dipping shed Photographic print filed in MS/744/106 Digital image of D 4019/6

Date 27/4/1994

Collection Scottish Farm Buildings Survey

Catalogue Number SC 742185

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 4019/6

Scope and Content Interior of covered sheep dip, Tongue Mains Farm, Highland 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 interior of the west end of the covered sheep dip. This structure was probably erected in the mid-19th century. The dip shed has Caithness flagstone floors, angled so that the water drips back into the bath and also making it difficult for the sheep to turn round. Sir Charles Barry's (1795-1860) most famous building is the Houses of Parliament in London. Following the destruction by fire of the Houses of Parliament in 1834, Barry won the competition for the new buildings, on which he worked from 1837 through the commencement of building in 1840, to the completion of first the House of Lords in 1847, and then the House of Commons in 1852 (though some work carried on after that). Working together with him on this pre-eminent example of Victorian Gothic was Augustus Pugin. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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