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Armadale Steading
Date 14 August 2011
Event ID 916493
Category Management
Type Site Management
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/916493
Coursed rubble; contrasting pale sand-stone dressings to dovecot. Large U-plan farm square open to south: 3 stage dovecot tower at SW (with ground floor workshop and heated room 1st floor); flightholes within small arched recesses; bracketted alighting ledges; deep eaves; pyramidal slate roof. 2 storey rear range with 3 cart arches, and granary vents at 1st floor; ramp to granary; wheel gable (no wheel) to east. Saw mill to east (in working order). Single storey, 8 bay west range as dwelling, harled with modern box dormer and centre projecting porch.
East range contains threshing machine by R G Morton, Errol Works, with original maintenance instructions dated 1878. Farmhouse (1801, James Gillespie Graham) demolished. (Historic Scotland)
