Ashintully

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This farmstead, which lies 600m WSW of Ashintully House, comprises seven buildings and a kiln-barn, their walls reduced to little more than grass-grown footings. Four of the buildings are ranged around a yard whose edges are sunk beneath the level of the centre.

The largest of these buildings lies on the NW side of the yard; it has four compartments and measures 26.3m from NE to SW by 4.7m overall and there is a drainage trench along its NW side. At the front of the building there is a stone-kerbed plinth, which runs the length of the SE side before turning to front the building on the NE side of the yard. The latter measures at least 12m by 5.4m overall but it is open-ended towards the SE and may originally have been longer.

The buildings on the SE and SW sides of the yard measure 11.7m by 4.3m and 9.5m by 4.9m overall respectively.

The four-compartment building, together with the building on the NE side of the yard and another set at right angles to it (16m by 6m overall), form the southern side of an L-shaped enclosure to the N of the farmstead. The other two buildings and the kiln-barn lie to the S, and form an irregular line askew to layout of the rest of the farmstead; the building on the NE measures 10.4m from NNE to SSW by 3.8m overall, that in the middle, which has two compartments, 9.7m from N to S by 4.8m overall, and the kiln-barn, with its bowl at the NNE end, 10m by 5.3m overall.

The farmstead is named Little Whitefield on Stobie's map (1783).

Visited by RCAHMS (SH) 30 September 1988.

RCAHMS 1990