The Croft, Upper Bowertower
Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Site Name The Croft, Upper Bowertower
Classification Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 285408
Site Number ND26SW 64
NGR ND 22330 61873
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/285408
- Council Highland
- Parish Bower
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND26SW 64 ND 22330 61873
This text was previously assigned to ND26SW 22
The buildings of the farmstead at The Croft, Upper Bowertower, are arranged around three sides of a yard open to the SE. All are built of roughly coursed flagstone, with flagstone floors and roofs of slate or flagstone. On the NE and NW, a range of L-shaped plan comprises byres, one with flagstone stalls, and a barn with granary above. A pigsty has been built against the rear wall of the barn, roughly where a horse-engine platform is shown on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map (Caithness 1907, sheet xii). The range on the SW includes a flagstone-stalled stable and a cart shed. A hen house, formerly a pigsty, lies detached on the SE, and has sods on its roof. This occupies the site of a long range, shown roofed on both the 1st and 2nd editions of the map. The ruins of a building lie to the NW. The site was visited in 2000.
Information from RCAHMS (ARG) 6 September 2006
