Drum Castle, Home Farm

The farm house is a single storey building located to the south of the main farm-yard buildings and at the end of Home Farm drive. The house does not appear on the 1st and 2nd edition OS maps and appears to post-date the main farm buildings which are present on these maps. The farm buildings form an impressive open yard of barns, with two 2-storey gables with raised skews and skew-putts facing east and a byre in the centre of the open side. This arrangement appears on the 1st edition OS map, although a larger free-standing building in the back of the yard appears to have been subsequently linked to the other buildings some time after the 2nd edition OS of 1899. Small kennels and office buildings are shown west of the main buildings on these maps, with a small enclosure to their south including three dog-runs. The kennels have gone but the offices remain. The absence of a farm house suggests that the farm was managed in-hand by the laird from the Castle. This arrangement seems to have pertained until the Duncans took over the farm as tenants c.1960 (Mrs Duncan, pers comm).

A number of other small buildings and former structures have been or remain part of the complex, as shown by the 1st, 2nd and current OS maps. Generally the buildings warrant further investigation and recording.

(DRU00B6) Information from NTS (BNM) March 2014.