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Ledmacay
Cottage (Period Unassigned), Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Lime Kiln (Period Unassigned), Watermill (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Ledmacay
Classification Cottage (Period Unassigned), Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Lime Kiln (Period Unassigned), Watermill (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Ledmacay Cottage
Canmore ID 127834
Site Number NJ31SW 59
NGR NJ 3471 1394
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/127834
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Strathdon
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ31SW 59 3471 1394
See also NJ31SW 9.
The farmstead of Ledmacay has been greatly altered since the publication of the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map (Aberdeenshire, sheet xl, 1903). The farmhouse is still situated on the N side of the steading, but the steading itself has been subject to some modernisation. The remains of a barn on the W, which has had a water-powered mill at its NE end, has been incorporated into the modern steading. The fabric of the old barn remains intact, but of the mill, only the N edge of the wheel-pit at the NE end of the NW side of the building is visible, together with a short length of lade, and a breached millpond immediately to the NE of the public road.
Before 1903 the water-powered mill was replaced, and a horse-engine (no longer visible), is shown on the SE side of a building adjacent to the SW end of the barn. The remains of a limekiln that was situated at the top of a natural W-facing slope immediately to the W of the steading was destroyed in about 1974 when that area was levelled prior to the construction of a dutch barn.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 31 March 1998.
