Middleton
Farmhouse (Period Unassigned), Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Middleton
Classification Farmhouse (Period Unassigned), Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 118166
Site Number NJ72SW 71
NGR NJ 7387 2232
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/118166
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Inverurie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ72SW 71 7387 2232
See also NJ72SW 99.
Middleton steading is of late 19th-century date, and was built after 1869 to replace an earlier fermtoun (NJ72SW 99), which lay some 300m upslope to the W. The steading went out of use some years ago and has recently undergone work to convert it into residential units.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 4 December 1997.
A sales brochure of 1932 provides particulars of Middleton Farm (lot 18, pp.15-16) including details of the farmhouse and the steading. The house comprised a hall, a kitchen, a larder, a scullery and nine other rooms; there were an adjoining dairy and wash-house. The steading comprised two stables for a total of eight horses, a barn, two byres for a total of fifty-five cattle, two turnip houses, two piggeries, a three-bay cart shed, a garage, a men's room, an engine house with chimney, a tool house and a fowl house.
In 1932 the farm was let to Mr Charles Mackie; at that time the size of the farm was about 158 acres (64ha) and its rent was £145 per annum.
Information from RCAHMS (JRS), 28 May 1998.
NMRS, MS/992/4.
