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Remains of a farmstead representing two distinct periods of construction, with the later farmhouse built in circa 1870. It was recorded by the RCAHMS 1998-9. The steading depicted on the 1st edition OS 6-inch map (1870) was subsequently replaced by an entirely new set of buildings. The buildings and enclosures depicted on the 1st edition map lie to the east-northeast of the later steading and have been reduced to little more than their grass-grown stone wall-footings. The later farmstead is currently unroofed, but in 1999 the buildings generally stood to wall-head height and comprised a south-facing, one-and-a-half storey cottage with a U-plan steading to the rear. The north range of the steading, to the rear of which there is a horse-mill platform, overlies the westernmost range of the earlier farmstead. The earlier range was formerly about 50 m long, but only the outline of its east end can be seen. It is adjoined on the north by a stack-yard, in which there are the remains of six circular stack-stands, whilst immediately to the southeast there are the footings of a single-compartment building measuring at least 14 m from northeast to southwest by 6 m transversely overall. The other two buildings depicted on the 1st edition of the OS map lie about 30 m to the northeast and east respectively. That on the northeast, which is adjoined on the west by an enclosure, has two compartments and an outshot at the north end. That on the east, which is adjoined on the north by an enclosure, has two compartments. Immediately to the north-northeast of the enclosure on its north side there are the remains of at least one building that is not depicted on the 1st edition map. To the west of the farmstead a sheepfold is depicted on the OS 1st edition map. One of the buildings depicted on the historic maps would have been the farmstead's mill. The farmer/miller of the farmstead in approximately the early-mid 19th Century was John Murray, who’s daughter married miller Alexander Reid. The Reids resided at the farm, with John Reid born in 1870 along with several siblings, until the 1880s when they relocated to Kirkcaldy. Alexander Reid eventually became a cork miller at Nairn’s Linoleum.
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