Building record MAB3997 - INVERERNE HOUSE

Home farm and walled garden of Invererne House (NJ06SW0035 - called Tannachy until circa 1834), depicted on the OS 1st and 2nd edition maps.

Home farm and walled garden of Invererne House (NJ06SW0035 - called Tannachy until circa 1834), depicted on the OS 1st and 2nd edition maps. The farmstead was probably built in 1818 by General William Grant at the same time as he built Invererne House. It has undergone various modern alterations. It comprises a rectangular courtyard steading, of a single storey with attic, with a 9-bay east front with slightly advanced and gabled outer bays (carriage houses) and a centre square two-storey dovecote tower. Three intermediate bays at the right form a cottage. The east front is of pinned tooled ashlar, elsewhere it is harl-pointed rubble with some modern harling, tooled and polished ashlar dressings and margins. The shallow pyramidal roof has deep eaves and apex cupola with weathervane. The dwelling and former stables have pointed-headed doorways and flanking windows with contrasting painted margins. The south elevation has a tall centre basket-arched entrance to the inner court flanked at the left by three lower but similar arched cart bays and at the right a 3-bay cottage with an entrance masked by a modern porch and two modern box dormers. The north elevation has a 5-bay cottage range with two piended dormers. The dovecot is square in plan, measuring 4.3 m, and rising to an overall height of 12.5 m excluding the weathervane. The lower chamber of the dovecot became a bedroom in 1947 when the eastern wing of the steading was converted to flatted accommodation. The upper chamber, used as a water storage tank area, retains 452 nest boxes. The walled garden to the north was built in 1825 and covers approximately 1 acre. It has substantial rubble walls with a tooled cope. It cost 40 pounds, 8 shillings, 10 and a half pence to build.

Period Notes
Walled garden checked 11 November 1825 by Mr Peter Thomson, Wright, Forres, and Alex Cumming, Mason. Steading presumed built at the same time as Invererne House (1818) Grant of Tannachy papers (Invererne called Tannachy until c.1834) reveal reparis in 1822.

BROWN, N, 1996, THE DOOCOTSOF MORAY - SECOND REPORT IN SUPPORT OF TRANSFER FROM MPHIL TO PHD COURSE (Bibliographic reference). SAB3770.

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Dec 16 2021 4:05PM