Field Visit

Date 3 April 2009

Event ID 587247

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

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RCAHMS Isle of Bute Survey

Quien is no longer a working farmsteading and its buildings, including modern kennels, are now used by Scalpsie Farm (NS05NE 110). Except for the roofless farmhouse at the NE end of the steading, all of the buildings are roofed and in good repair. Each of the two barns has a horse-engine platform attached to its SW side.

The farmstead is depicted on two 18th century estate maps. Foulis (1758-9, RHP 14107/42) shows four buildings and two enclosures depicted here and the surrounding ground is depicted as cultivated and annotated 'fine light arable crofts'. May (1781) shows four buildings and three enclosures surrounded by cultivated fields. The steading is depicted roofed on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Buteshire 1869, sheet CCXV), but the horse-engine platforms appear only on the later 2nd edition of the map (Buteshire 1897, sheet CCXV).

Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH, LAD) 3 April 2009.