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Carsehead
Architectural Fragment(S) (Period Unassigned), Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Horse Engine House (19th Century) - (20th Century), Pond (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Carsehead
Classification Architectural Fragment(S) (Period Unassigned), Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Horse Engine House (19th Century) - (20th Century), Pond (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 89324
Site Number NN92SE 34
NGR NN 9525 2308
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/89324
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Fowlis Wester
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NN92SE 34.00 9525 2308
See also NN92SE 65.
NN92SE 34.01 NO 9556 2308 Carsehead Cottages
The modern farmhouse and steading of Carsehead appear to be mainly of early 19th-century date; a datestone of 1816 is built into an arch in the steading and the configuration of the buildings matches almost exactly the depiction of the steading on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Perthshire, sheet xcvi, 1867), although the horse-engine house then depicted no longer survives. Numerous dressed sandstone blocks have been built into the rubble walls of the steading, but it is likely that these have been robbed from the ruins of Inchchaffray Abbey (NN92SE 4), which are situated some 500m to the S. Incorporated (upside-down) in re-use into the upper part of an inner wall of the byre there is a fragment of a stone (possibly a marriage-stone) bearing the incomplete inscription ?W 1658?.
The mill pond (NN 9524 2317) on the N side of the steading was being infilled on the date of visit but the lade that fed the water to the mill NN92SE 65 (some 490m to the NE) still survives.
Visited by RCAHMS (RJCM, JRS), 9 November 1995.
