Skelbo Farm, Steading
Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Skelbo Farm, Steading
Classification Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 14781
Site Number NH79NE 39
NGR NH 79045 95011
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/14781
![Summary of manuscript contents, Skelbo Steading
Drawings: Annotated site plan with descriptive notes (1:1250)
Other material: Photocopies of 'Plan and Elevation of the Farm Buildings Erected for the Earl Gower at Skelbo in 1811', 'Plan of Skelbo Farm Offices in the occupation of the Duke of Sutherland...' (National [Map] Library 313/3167/43); extract from 'Stephens' Book of the Farm' (1908, vol.2, 321) regarding the storing of potatoes before and after 1860; OS 25-inch map extracts (Sutherland 1874 & 1906, sheet CX.5, 2 sheets); Two sheets of correspondence regarding the survey
Working photographic prints: D4055/31-2/CN, D4056/33-6, E/CN](http://i.rcahms.gov.uk/canmore/l/SC00370766.jpg)
![Summary of manuscript contents, Skelbo Steading
Drawings: Annotated site plan with descriptive notes (1:1250)
Other material: Photocopies of 'Plan and Elevation of the Farm Buildings Erected for the Earl Gower at Skelbo in 1811', 'Plan of Skelbo Farm Offices in the occupation of the Duke of Sutherland...' (National [Map] Library 313/3167/43); extract from 'Stephens' Book of the Farm' (1908, vol.2, 321) regarding the storing of potatoes before and after 1860; OS 25-inch map extracts (Sutherland 1874 & 1906, sheet CX.5, 2 sheets); Two sheets of correspondence regarding the survey
Working photographic prints: D4055/31-2/CN, D4056/33-6, E/CN](http://i.rcahms.gov.uk/canmore/s/SC00370766.jpg)
- Council Highland
- Parish Dornoch
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NH79NE 39.00 79045 95011.
This farmstead has a large E-shaped plan with a projecting water-powered threshing barn to the W. There is a covered cattle court in each of the yards. The cattle courts are surrounded by a paved way and have an impressive seven-gable E-facing facade. The farmstead was disused when visited but was in good repair.
Visited by RCAHMS (GJD), July 1994; see NMRS MS 744/119.
Related sites:
NH79NE 39.01 NH 79006 95016 Byre
NH79NE 39.00 Cancelled. See NH79SE 50
NH79NE 39.03 NH 79033 95007 Cattle Court
NH79NE 39.04 NH 79016 95037 Granary
NH79NE 39.00 Cancelled. See NH79SE 51
NH79NE 39.06 NH 79019 95002 Straw Barn
NH79NE 39.00 Cancelled. See NH79SE 24
NH79SE 50 NH 79039 94978 Cart sheds.
NH79SE 51 NH 79019 94986 Stables.
NH79SE 24 NH 78999 94995 Barn and threshing machine.
