Mill Of Wardes
Farmhouse (Period Unassigned), Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Mill Of Wardes
Classification Farmhouse (Period Unassigned), Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Mill Of Wardes Farm; Mill Of Wardhouse
Canmore ID 130700
Site Number NJ63SW 65
NGR NJ 6228 3033
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/130700
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Insch
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ63SW 65.00 6228 3033
NJ63SW 65.01 NJ 6202 3026 Cottage
A sales brochure of 4 October 1932 provides particulars of Mill of Wardes Farm(lot 31, pp. 24-5) including details of the farmhouse and the steading. The house comprised a kitchen, a milk house, a scullery and seven other rooms. The steading comprised a barn and mill with loft and granary, two stables for a total of eight horses, two byres for a total of fifty-four cattle, a turnip house, a two-bay cart shed, a water wheel, two implement houses, a tool shed, a store and two fowl houses. In addition, Beechrow Cottage (NJ63SW 65.01) was also included in the farm let; it contained four rooms and a kitchen.
In 1932 the farm was let to Mr James Morrison; at that time the size of the farm was about 150 acres (61 ha) and its rent was ?193 per annum.
Information from RCAHMS (JRS), 28 May 1998.
NMRS, MS/992/3.
On the 1797 plan of Nether Bottom (E 33934 and E 33935 CN) a group of buildings annotated 'Mill of Wardhouse' is depicted near this location. Two buildings are next to a mill lade, and four others are grouped SW of them. It appears that the mill lade was taken from the un-named burn, now a drain, which joined the Kellock from the SW. The exact location of the buildings is difficult to ascertain, however, because the course of the burn has been altered.
Information from RCAHMS (AC) 10 January 2008.
See also NJ63SW 197 (Mill of Wardes).
