Archaeology Notes

Event ID 776478

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ72SW 51.04 72796 20111

Not to be confused with House of Aquahorthies, Home Farm (NJ 7415 2014), for which NJ72SW 51.02.

A sales brochure of 1932, provides particulars of Aquhorthies Farm (lot 26, p.21) including details of the farmhouse, the steading and two cottages. The house comprised a boxroom, a WC, inner and outer hall, a larder, a kitchen, a dairy, a scullery and nine other rooms. Situated close to the farmhouse were two cottages: one contained two rooms, a kitchen and a pantry; the other contained three rooms and had a coal store and fowl house. The steading comprised a barn and mill, two other barns, two stables for a total of twelve horses, a two-storey granary, eight byres for a total of one hundred and seven cattle, two turnip houses, a loose box, a hay store and a five-bay cart shed.

In 1932 the farm was let to Mr W Strachan; at that time the size of the farm was about 318 acres (128.7 ha) and its rent was ?250 per annum.

Information from RCAHMS (JRS), 28 May 1998.

NMRS, MS/992/4.