Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Event ID 561103
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/561103
Whitehill farm once formed part of the Nenthorn estate. Like many other farms in the area around Nenthorn and Smailholm, it was transformed by the agricultural improvements of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The farmhouse at Whitehill is a two-storeyed building of nineteenth-century date.
Located nearby was a steading which was designed and laid out as a predominantly arable farm, including a covered cattle court, stabling for 15 horses and room to keep a gig and carts.
A threshing mill, originally water-powered, also formed part of the steading. The mill pond, plus its associated dam and lade, can still be identified as an area of marshland and an associated water channel on the 1988 1:10000 map of the area. By the early twentieth century, however, a steam engine had been installed to power the machinery.
Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project
