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Field Visit
Date August 1977
Event ID 707834
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/707834
Compston NS 957 759 NS97NE
A small laird’s house of mid-18th century date, now derelict. Fragments of 16th century mouldings incorporated into adjacent farm buildings indicate the former existence of an earlier building on the site; there are fragmentary remains of a dovecote some 50m NW of the house.
RCAHMS 1978, visited August 1977
(RCAHMS 1963, pp. 354, 397, Nos. 317 and 395)