House Of Aquahorthies, Farm Steading
Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Site Name House Of Aquahorthies, Farm Steading
Classification Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Aquahorthies House Policies
Canmore ID 114833
Site Number NJ72SW 51.04
NGR NJ 72796 20111
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/114833
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Inverurie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
Aquhorthies Steading, early 19th century, classic improved farm complex grouped very pleasingly on slope; includes lofty granary and neat stables.
Taken from "Aberdeenshire: Donside and Strathbogie - An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Ian Shepherd, 2006. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
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.
The material at Columba House deals with the running of the farm, implying that the steading grew as turn-over improved. In use by catholic church until c.1840. There is a threshing machine referred to in the arch ive, but this is not the one recorded in MS/744/181.
Taken from notes made from documents relating to Aquhorties Farmsteading, Catholic church archives, Columba House, 19 Drummond Place, Edinburgh by RCAHMS (GJD) August 1992.
The farm of Aquhorties was built to support the Catholic Seminary housed in House of Aquhorties from 1799 to 1829 (see MS/744/181).
Information in letter from Anne Baxter, House of Aquhorties by Inverurie, dated 17th June 1992.
