Standing Building Recording

Date 18 April 2017 - 19 April 2017

Event ID 1083455

Category Recording

Type Standing Building Recording

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NO 73345 96931 A measured survey and historic building

record were produced of the redundant W range of the

Crathes Farmstead within the Crathes Castles Estate on

18–19 April 2017.

The farmstead was constructed in the early 19th century

with later buildings added to the W side in the later 19th

century, including some cottages, a rifle range and kennels.

The W range has served as a cart shed and (later) as a stable

block, with cart entrances facing the courtyard on the E side.

There are five distinct spaces within the building which

include a former bothy/forge, a larger stable block, and three

former cart sheds, now converted to machine and general

storage. Later blockings of original cart openings occurred

at some point and a stables block was created within the

building in the position of a former cart shed. Some of the

original stone cobbled flooring has also survived in three

of the former cart sheds. In 2011, renovations to the farm

buildings saw the exterior re-harled and the N and E wings

of the farmstead converted to a café.

Archive: NRHE (intended)

Funder: National Trust for Scotland

Diana Sproat and Gemma Hudson – AOC Archaeology Group

(Source: DES, Volume 19)

OASIS ID: aocarcha1-283328 (D Sproat) 2017