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Castle Menzies, Home Farm

Farmhouse (Period Unassigned), Farmstead (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Castle Menzies, Home Farm

Classification Farmhouse (Period Unassigned), Farmstead (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 163393

Site Number NN84NW 99

NGR NN 83158 49272

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Perth And Kinross
  • Parish Weem
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District Perth And Kinross
  • Former County Perthshire

Archaeology Notes

NN84NW 99.00 83158 49272.

This formal early-19th-century home farm has a U-shaped plan with a two-storeyed building in the centre of the yard. The farmhouse lies immediately to the SW. The buildings are of rubble and have slate roofs. When visited in 2000 the farmstead had been converted to use as a visitor centre.

Information from RCAHMS (SS), 14 March 2006.

Related sites:

NN84NW 99.01 83169 49312 Steading.

NN84NW 99.02 83168 49293 Central Block.

For Castle Menzies (NN 8369 4961) and associated buildings, see NN84NW 7.

Activities

Publication Account (2004)

This mid-19th-century U-plan model steading has a central covered cattle court entered through an Italianate tower with gothic windows and a doocot. The architect is unknown, but the style relates to other estate buildings, such as Killiechassie Doocot. William Burn extended the castle in 1839-40, but there is no evidence of his involvement in the idiosyncratic estate buildings. Michael Gray (architect) and John Addison (engineer) converted the cattle court into "The House of Menzies" in 2000. To the west is the late 18th-century, three-bay, harled farmhouse.

Information from ‘RCAHMS Excursion Guide 2004: Commissioners' Field Excursion, Perth and Angus, 31 August – 2 September 2004’.

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