Monument record MHG34443 - BALLACHROAN

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User: Admin, Date: Wed 13 Oct 2004
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NH70SW 35 7328 0027


This Improvement Period farmsteading comprises a range of four buildings around a courtyard that once contained a midden, an outlying cottage to the SE, and an outbuilding to the SW. Only the SW wing of the range still has a roof on it and a fifth building which is depicted on the OS 1:2500 scale map (1968) to the SW has been almost completely demolished.
The building on the SE of the courtyard (KING95 771) is the farmhouse and has a central arched porch, edged with granite, that has survived the vicissitudes of demolition. A datestone of 1815 was reported by the farmer as having been taken to Pitmain farm, but it was not located at the date of survey. A cellar at the SW end of the house is now filled with rubble. The NW range was a byre, a stone-line byre-drain being visible in the middle of the floor, and it was constructed at the same time as the SW wing (KING95 772). The SW wing was probably the barn; a substantial platform is attached to the SW side, which may indicate the location of a horse-engine platform. Due to the demolition of the buildings and the driving of a track through the farmyard, the relationship of the NE wing to the rest of the buildings could not be ascertained (KING95 773). The cottage to the SE is ruinous and comprises three-bays (KING95 774).
The farmsteading is depicted as roofed on the 1st edition OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire 1872, sheet cii).
(KING95 771-4)
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 24 November 1995