Craigentarrie

Plane table survey at 1:100, site description and photographs.

Craigentarrie lies about 3km SE of Currie and 400m SE of the junction of two historic paths across the Pentland range: the Clochmead, which links Harlaw with Glencorse and the Kirkgate road, which fords the Water of Leith at Currie Kirk and runs straight towards Craigentarrie. The site comprises a rectangular stone-built farmstead, aligned E/W, with the partial remains of a rectangular stone-walled enclosure to its S (rear) and W. A small brick outhouse in the NW corner of the enclosure may have been an outside toilet, and 14m NE of the farmstead is a well, now covered by two large stones. A second large grassy enclosure measuring c 100m x c30m also lies to the NE, with an old rowan tree growing from one of its boundary walls. Extensive rig and furrow cultivation covers the area and the farmstead and its stone walls appear to overly this.

The farmstead measures 22m x 9m overall and comprises a two-roomed house with a small brick-built kitchen extension on its N wall and an outshot to the W, which appears to have been used initially as a byre and later extended to form a barn or cartshed. The house was built in at least two phases, the W half being the original building measuring 7m x 6m overall. The byre outshot to the W is narrower than the house and has a lower roofline.

The farmstead is built of pink, grey and yellow sandstone which is roughly shaped and coursed on the front (N) wall, but un-coursed on the back (S) wall. The corners have well cut quoins and the door and window surrounds are of cut/dressed stone, although many have been altered and some replaced or heavily patched with cement. The kitchen extension was added in the twentieth century in red brick with cement render. A wooden porch was attached to its W wall, but this was burned down in recent years and only the cement foundation remains. The house has two standing gables and the kitchen extension and E end of the house are still partly roofed in slate. There is a chimney stack in the E gable and a tall chimney in the NE corner of the kitchen extension. Access to the kitchen extension and E end of the house is limited by the partially-collapsed roof.

The site and buildings have been surveyed in detail by SRP Pentland Hills and a full analysis is contained in the documents, Craigentarrie Detailed Site Description and Craigentarrie History. These should be read in conjunction with the Craigentarrie measured survey.

Information from SRP Pentland Hills, October 2010.

Review of historic maps, printed material and archive sources, including estate papers and census records.