Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Event ID 560692
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/560692
An early twentieth-century sales brochure gives a detailed account of the buildings which made up Millfield Farm on the Mertoun Estate.
The farmhouse was two storeys high, while the steading consisted of a range of buildings laid out around two open cattle courts. These buildings included a turnip shed, a byre, a straw barn, a granary and stabling for six horses. Farm cottages provided accommodation for two farm workers.
Millfield must also have possessed water-powered facilities, probably for threshing purposes. Map evidence from the late nineteenth century to the present shows both a mill dam, and a system of water channels or lades.
Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project
