View of SE byre from NNW.
C 15318
Description View of SE byre from NNW.
Date 5/8/1993
Catalogue Number C 15318
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 742812
Scope and Content Byre, East Barns, East Lothian, from north-north-west Dated 1847, East Barns Farm was the property of the Hay family in the 19th century and includes a cart shed, granary and chimney-stack arranged in a line running north-east. The buildings are of random rubble with droved grey ashlar dressings with polished borders, grey slate roofs and lead flashings. This is the south-east byre seen from the north-north-west, and showing the frame of its close-coupled 'piend', or hipped, roof. This building is behind and detached from the south range and would originally have been used to house cattle. In the days before roads and rail, cattle provided their own means of locomotion. There used to be an intricate system of cattle droving, dealing and markets, especially during the second half of the 17th century, when it was said that Edinburgh was good for milk cows on 'Trinity Monday'. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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