View of ash closet from North-West. Digital image of C 44457

Description View of ash closet from North-West. Digital image of C 44457

Date 20/6/1994

Catalogue Number SC 743478

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of C 44457

Scope and Content Ash closet, Wester Kittochside Farm, South Lanarkshire, from north-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 ash closet from the north-west. Ash closets were basically dry closets used as toilets before running water and modern sanitation became widespread. They were usually situated at some distance from the house though this one is sandwiched between the gig shed and the tool shed. Today, the landscape at Wester Kittochside is presented to visitors in roughly its condition during the 1950s, including a five or six shift crop rotation, normal at the time, with grazing supporting milk cattle and working horses. Cultivation consists of grass at the north and south boundaries of the farm and hay and turnips in the middle. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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