Archaeology Notes

Event ID 846771

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT73SW 5.04 centred 70753 34985.

This farmstead and sawmill is undergoing survey as part of the Scottish Farm Buildings Survey: Lothian and Merse. Survey information to follow.

Information from RCAHMS (GPS) 24 November 1998.

This large farmstead is situated to the NW of Floors Castle (NT73SW 5.00) and comprises a group of buildings of E-shaped plan, covered cattle courts and various other ranges and detached buildings. At the NE of the site there are ornate kennels and a gamekeeper's cottage whilst at the SW lies the farm manager's house (1875). Elsewhere there are stables with six loose boxes and tack room and loft above, ten cart bays, a dairy byre (1874), a Dutch barn, a horse-engine shed, a barn (with grain dryer and shaft for the drive) and a sawmill and milk parlour. Also of note are ornamental gate piers and a 1964 cattle court. The farmstead was visited in 1997.

Information from RCHAMS (SS), 16 February 2006.