View from SE Digital image of C/60387

Description View from SE Digital image of C/60387

Date 30/11/1994

Catalogue Number SC 774276

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of C 60387

Scope and Content Steading and Dovecot, Stables, Keithick House, Perth & Kinross, from south-east This shows the south elevation of the steading which was built between 1805 and 1810. The two-storeyed building in the background has two cart sheds at each side where carts and farm implements were stored. The circular building with the conical roof in the centre was a horsemill, and farm labourers and their families would have occupied the single-storeyed cottages on the left. The majority of the estate's income would probably have come from renting farms and the sale of livestock and crops. This group of farm buildings were the base for all the estate's agricultural operations. The horsemill would have originally consisted of a wooden horse-wheel from which radial arms extended and to which the horses would be harnessed. As the horses walked around the building, the wheel and the upright shaft turned, driving the threshing machine in the adjacent barn. Keithick House was designed by David Whyte and built for W E Collinswood between 1818 and 1823. David Bryce (1803-76) changed the porch and offices in 1839, and Maclaren, Soutar & Salmond made further alterations in 1926. Morant painted an Adam Revival decorative scheme in the drawing room. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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