Torbain

The unoccupied farmstead of Torbain is shown as roofed on current editions of the Ordnance Survey 1:10000 map.

The farmstead comprised three buildings. One was L-shaped on plan, while the other two were rectangular. Located a short distance to the south was a limekiln.

A nineteenth-century source describes the site as a 'farm house, with offices and farm attached'. This description indicates that these remains are likely to post-date the agricultural improvements of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project

NJ11SE 20 1612 1356

A farmstead comprising three roofed buildings, one of which is L-shaped and another is a long building, and one unroofed building, and a limekiln to the S are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Banff-shire 1871, sheet lxiii). Two roofed buildings, one unroofed building and one enclosure are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1971) with the limekiln being annotated as disused.

The Ordnance Survey Name Book states that Torbain is a 'farm house, with offices and farm attached'.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), 17 August 1998.

Name Book 1867.

(Location cited as NJ 1613 1353). Torbain. This minor depopulated settlement is roofed but unoccupied. It is situated in an area of woodland on a slight shelf on a W-facing slope at an altitude of about 370m OD.

NMRS, MS/712/40.