Monument record MHG16095 - Dalchork Steading
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Location
| Grid reference | Centred NC 5727 1062 (100m by 100m) (Buffered by site type) |
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| Map sheet | NC51SE |
| Geographical Area | SUTHERLAND |
| Old County | SUTHERLAND |
| Civil Parish | LAIRG |
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Full Description
Renumbered from NC51SE0068A
JHooper, 22/10/2002
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NN51SE 67.01 5727 1062
This steading is comprised of two separate sets of buildings. One set of buildings consists of an 'L'-planned range witrh a water powered threshing barn, a cattle shelter, a byre, a cartshed/ clipping shed with a granary above, a detached stable and gig house which is now linked by a covered cattle court to the straw barn end of the threshing barn range. There is also a large sheep handling system including a clipping shed, pens, a dipper, a loading ramp, a dip boiler and so on. The second set of buildings are a dairy complex dating from the 1930s, including a single-storey range of dairy/ bottling plant, byres, cattle sheds, bull pens, a silage tower and a covered yard.
RCAHMS (Scottish Farm Buildings Survey), 1998.
See NMRS MS 744/100.
Sources/Archives (2)
- --- SHG2841 Text/Publication/Volume: Sutherland Estates. 1866-. Sutherland Estates building specifications. Dalchork 1874, 1-22.
- --- SHG32 Text/Publication/Article: Wade Martins, S. 1997. ''A Century of Farms and Farming on the Sutherland Estate, 1790 - 1890'', Review of Scottish Culture, Vol 10, 1996-7, pp 33-54. 51.
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Record last edited
Jan 28 2008 12:00AM
