Building record MAB39951 - TILLYFRUSKIE

Farmstead, still in use, including a former small mansion house now the farmhouse.

Farmstead, still in use, including a former small mansion house now the farmhouse. The OS 1st edition shows a group of at least 9 buildings, then named Tillyfroskie. By the time of the 2nd edition most of these had been removed, only the southwesternmost L-plan building (farmhouse) remaining. To the north the earlier buildings had been replaced by a U-plan steading open to the south with a rectangular building on the south side of the court and two other buildings to the south. The farmhouse, dated 1733, is a 2-storey, 3-window L-plan Laird's house, with an adjoining courtyard to the east. It is harled with chamfered granite reveals. Windows are mainly 4-pane timber sash and case, the roof of graded grey slate with a stone ridge and stone skews, that to the northeast dated '1733', the southeast tooled 'DO??' (David Ochterlouny). Rubble coped harled courtyard wall adjoins the house to the east, stepped down to the east with square-plan corniced gatepiers with spherical finials to the north. Gateway has a decorative ironwork 2-leaf gate. Against the rubble wall to the southeast is a pink granite cheese press. North of the house is a 4-step granite rubble mounting platform (loupin'-on-stane). The steading to the northeast of the house is single storey of harled rubble with finely finished granite dressings. It has a gabled large round-arched opening to the centre, with a bulls-eye set in the gablehead and spherical finial. A walled garden to the house has been lost.

Period Notes
Estate mentioned in 1696; present house dated 1733. Listed 16/04/1971.

SDD, n.d., BLDS OF ARCH & HIST INTEREST, BIRSE 25 (Bibliographic reference). SAB1827.

Record last edited

Aug 15 2017 1:45PM