Altyre, Blairs Home Farm, Tower Range And Tower Cottages
Cottage(S) (19th Century), Farm Building (19th Century)
Site Name Altyre, Blairs Home Farm, Tower Range And Tower Cottages
Classification Cottage(S) (19th Century), Farm Building (19th Century)
Canmore ID 235336
Site Number NJ05NW 284.02
NGR NJ 02789 55162
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/235336
- Council Moray
- Parish Rafford
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Morayshire
Mid ninteenth century range of farm buildings, designed to resemble Italian town buildings. The tower range consists of two 2-storey cottages and large tower with Tuscan decoration.
Photographic Survey (5 September 2013)
Photographed for the Listed Buildings Recording Programme 2013-14.
Standing Building Recording (19 December 2014)
NJ 02811 55174 A photographic survey was undertaken of Blair’s Home Farm (NJ05NW 284) on 19 December 2014 before its conversion to offices and accommodation. The buildings are in an Italianate style and date from c1834, though they were altered in the late-19th century, in 1902 and again in 1921 due to a fire.
Archive: National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE) intended
Funder: Idom Merebrook Engineers on behalf of Altyre Estate
Stuart Farrell
(Source: DES, Volume 16)
Standing Building Recording (20 July 2015 - 23 January 2016)
NJ 02811 55174 (NJ05NW 284) A watching brief was carried out, 20 July 2015 – 23 January 2016, at Blair’s Home Farm during its conversion to offices and accommodation. Only a few features of interest were noted.
Archive: NRHE. Report and photographs: NRHE (intended)
Funder: Altyre Estate
Stuart Farrell
(Source: DES, Volume 17)
Project
Recording Scotland's graffiti project was designed to review the range of historic and contemporary graffiti art across Scotland. It involved desk-based assessment and fieldwork at a number of example sites, to consider recording methodologies and dissemination practices.
Between 2016 and 2017, phase 1 of the project aimed to:
Aim 1: review a range of historic and contemporary graffiti art from across Scotland, already present in Canmore.
Aim2: undertake a research review of previous approaches to recording graffiti art in Canmore and other HERs, review and develop the current Thesaurus terms.
Aim 3: test and develop a range of recording methods within the following programmes or projects: Discovering the Clyde programme (1223), Scotland’s Urban Past (1222), Architecture and Industry projects, such as Urban Recording Projects (1028), Area Photographic Survey (311) and the Tomintoul and Glenlivet Landscape Partnership (1167).
Aim 4: the following test sites will be considered for research into the range of historic and contemporary graffiti. They will be analysed to demonstrate the different ages, contexts, styles and survivals of historic and contemporary graffiti: Polphail village (Canmore ID 299112), Scalan farmstead (170726), Cowcaddens Subway Station (243099), Croick Parish Church (12503), Dalbeattie Armament Depot (76279) and Dumbarton Rock (43376).
Aim 5: to research the potential for social media to play a role in crowd-sourcing information and archiving Scotland’s graffiti art.
In 2017-2019, phase 2 of the project aimed to:
Aim 1: To enhance the NRHE to the point at which it can be said to adequately represent the broad range of historic and modern graffiti that is evident throughout Scotland, and to explore ways by which that information can best be disseminated.
Aim 2: To develop guidelines that will convey the HES approach to researching and recording graffiti.
Aim 3: To write a specification for a book on Scotland’s graffiti.
Aim 4: To develop external partnerships to explore further ways to record graffiti and to identify and explore potential funding streams to enable further knowledge exchange and research.
The project was managed by Dr Alex Hale, with contributions from staff across Herirtage and Commercial and Tourism directorates.
