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South Balluderon, Farmsteading
Farmstead (19th Century)
Site Name South Balluderon, Farmsteading
Classification Farmstead (19th Century)
Canmore ID 266150
Site Number NO33NE 67.03
NGR NO 37554 38078
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/266150
- Council Angus
- Parish Tealing
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District City Of Dundee
- Former County Angus
Late C18th and early C19th steading range including surviving mill wheel and threshing machinery.
RCAHMS (CAJS) 2012.
Mill at NW corner circa 1800; N, S, E and W ranges early 19th century; cattle courts and addition to S range later 19th century. Single, 2- and 3-storey, near quadrangular plan, farm steading sited on falling ground. Rubble masonry with some broad droved dressings, long and short quoins; piended roofs of stone slate, slate, corrugated sheet metal and bitumen impregnated paper; boarded doors.
South Balluderon Farm was probably established during the 1790s following the division of the Balluderon estate into North and South Balluderon. South Balluderon was owned by the Mount Family from circa 1870 and the steading ceased to be used in 1949 upon the death of George C Mount. Mount never adopted tractors and alterations to the steading were minimal, consequently it represents a rare example of an unaltered 19th century steading.(Historic Environment Scotland List Entry)
Photographic Survey (28 September 2011)
Photographed by the Listed Buildings Area Survey as part of the Angus record upgrade programme.
RCAHMS (CAJS) 2012.
Publication Account (2013)
Improvement-era farm steading of the 1790s. Farming ceased in 1949 so this is something of a timewarp, never having adopted tractors. Its roofs are decaying. An early threshing machine sits above an enclosed 13’ (4.3m) diameter high backshot water wheel, 8 cast iron spokes to each side, with suspension rods between, probably the second wheel to be installed here. Power take-up was by gearing at ¾ diameter to the threshing
machine directly above. Private.
M Watson, 2013
