Building record MAB13543 - LESSENDRUM HOME FARM

Farmstead still in use, dating from the later 19th century.

Farmstead still in use, dating from the later 19th century. It does not appear on the OS 1st edition map, but is shown on the 2nd edition as a rectangular building with a narrow enclosed court. It has a single storey, 5-bay courtyard steading with centred 2-stage pavilion-roofed castellated dovecot pend entrance and balancing gabled bays. Built of squared and snecked rubble with contrasting ashlar dressings, with segmentally headed cart arches and stone mullions. There is an outbuilding and a mill dam and pond to the south. The 2005 map shows that the outbuilding is disused and that the court in the main building has been extended eastwards. The pond is still shown. Standing building survey of the steading buildings and associated lodge was carried out by MAS in October 2018 ahead of proposed development. The farm appears to have replaced an earlier Home Farm which is mentioned in a sale advert in 1858. The steading is an imposing example of an estate steading with parallels for the pend tower entrance at, for example, Fyvie Castle Home Farm. The location of the lodge suggests use as a dwelling for a grieve or equivalent but its plan and lack of gable chimneys would have made it cramped and cold.

MURRAY ARCHAEOLOGICAL SERVICES, 2018, LESSENDRUM HOME FARM, DRUMBLADE, ABERDEENSHIRE: STANDING BUILDING SURVEY, L1 SBS (Bibliographic reference). SAB7426.

ARCHAEOLOGY SCOTLAND, 2019, DISCOVERY AND EXCAVATION IN SCOTLAND, NEW SERIES, VOLUME 19, 2018, p. 13 (Bibliographic reference). SAB6524.

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Nov 13 2025 2:32PM