Quarry Cottage

NJ02NW 104 01746 28028

A farmstead, comprising three roofed, two unroofed buildings and one enclosure is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Elginshire 1874, sheet xxxii). One roofed, one unroofed building and one enclosure are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1976).

Information fom RCAHMS (AKK) 13 March 1997.

The farmstead of Wester Dreggie comprises five buildings, two of which are lime-mortared and are shown roofed on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map (Elginshire 1905, sheet xxxii NE). The eastern of these two, which occupies the site of a roofed building depicted on the 1st edition of the map (Inverness-shire 1874-5), is accompanied by a stone-walled garden enclosure on the slope below to the SE, but it has evidently been demolished quite recently and is now little more than a rectangular mound of rubble. The second lime-mortared building, which lies about 30m to the W and is also largely demolished, occupies the NW end of another roofed building shown on the earlier map, but this latter structure has been entirely removed. The other three buildings that can be seen have been reduced to grass-grown footings no more than 0.4m in height, one of them being a long range lying between the two lime-mortared buildings. A shallow sunken yard lies to its rear (NW), and also fronts a narrow building. These three buildings had been abandoned before 1874 and two of them are shown roofless on the 1st edition of the OS map. The purpose of a pit, some 2m in diameter, which lies on the crest of the rise to the W of the farmstead is unknown.

Visited by RCAHMS (SH, TIP, JH) 9 October 2006.

There is a well 60m to the NNW of the farmstead depicted on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map (Elginshire 1905, sheet xxxii NE).

Information from Mr K Tainsh, letter dated 27th June 2008, see MS/5219.