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Farmhouse (Period Unassigned), Farmstead (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Whitehill

Classification Farmhouse (Period Unassigned), Farmstead (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Nenthorn Estate; Whitehill Farm; Whitehill House

Canmore ID 161927

Site Number NT63NE 19

NGR NT 6833 3868

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/161927

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Scottish Borders, The
  • Parish Nenthorn
  • Former Region Borders
  • Former District Roxburgh
  • Former County Berwickshire

Accessing Scotland's Past Project

Accessing Scotland's Past Project

Whitehill farm once formed part of the Nenthorn estate. Like many other farms in the area around Nenthorn and Smailholm, it was transformed by the agricultural improvements of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

The farmhouse at Whitehill is a two-storeyed building of nineteenth-century date.

Located nearby was a steading which was designed and laid out as a predominantly arable farm, including a covered cattle court, stabling for 15 horses and room to keep a gig and carts.

A threshing mill, originally water-powered, also formed part of the steading. The mill pond, plus its associated dam and lade, can still be identified as an area of marshland and an associated water channel on the 1988 1:10000 map of the area. By the early twentieth century, however, a steam engine had been installed to power the machinery.

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

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Archaeology Notes

NT63NE 19.00 6833 3868

see also

NT63NE 19.01 NT6835 3875 Cottages

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