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Field Visit
Date 24 April 2009
Event ID 606501
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/606501
Craigberoch farmsteading, which was last occupied about twenty years ago, comprises ranges on three sides of a courtyard that is open to the ENE. The SSE range contains a now roofless three-bay one-and-a-half storey farmhouse with yellow sandstone margins, which has been extended by two bays to the WSW. Attached to the WSW end of this extension is a byre. The roofless WSW range comprises a barn (with a horse-engine platform adjacent to its WSW side) and a cart-shed (opening into the yard) attached to its SSE end. The NNW range contains a byre with a bothy attached to its ENE end. A large silage pit is situated immediately SW of the buildings.
'Craigbeeroch' is depicted as two buildings and a yard on a mid-18th century estate map (Foulis 1758-59; RHP14107/23), at which time the farm extended to 174 Scots acres. The farmstead is also depicted on May's map of 1781, when there were two buildings and adjacent yards on a farm of 116 acres. The 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Buteshire 1869, Sheet CCIV) depicts the present SSE and WSW ranges roofed. The contemporary OS Name Book (No.7, p.74) describes Craigbiroch as 'a farm house and offices, the property of the Marquis of Bute', and the occupier at that time was Duncan Currie. The present NNW range is a late-19th century addition which is shown on the 2nd edition of the map (Bute shire 1897, Sheet CCIV SW).
Visited by RCAHMS (GFG, JMH) 24 April 2009.
