Description

Circa 1840. Single storey and attic, 3-bay, rectangular-plan farmhouse with later additions and alterations. Coursed tooled granite rubble with long and short dressings. Base course; projecting cills; consoled canopies to ground floor openings; crowstepped gables.

SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; glazed panelled timber door to centre of ground floor, with letterbox fanlight; window to each flanking bay. Modern skylight to centre of attic floor, flanked to left and right by flat-roofed timber box dormer.

SE ELEVATION: asymmetrical; gabled; window off-centre to right of ground floor, window off-centre to left of gablehead. Modern 2-bay harled addition adjoining to outer right.

NE ELEVATION: predominantly obscured by modern harled addition advanced to left, with lean-to entrance bay. Cheese press to right at ground floor.

NW ELEVATION: asymmetrical; gabled; window off-centre to right of gablehead.

Variety of timber sash and case windows. Graded grey slate roof with tiled ridge. Stone skews with corniced skewputts. Corniced granite gablehead stacks with circular cans. PVCu rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 1999.

Statement of Interest

According to the 3rd Statistical Account "the farm now called Allancreich was a posting place in the days of the stage coach and the buildings have still numerous stalls for stabling" (p419-420), which perhaps explains why the detail on this building is rather grander than many of the other estate buildings. The steadings have been altered, however the house survives largely intact. According to Callander, Allancreich was also an ale house. The Ballogie Estate was, in 1650, called Tillysnaught, and belonged to the Roses of Kilravock. It then passed to the Forbes family, followed by the Innes family and their relatives the Farquharsons. When the Innes family of Ballogie and Balnacraig died out the Farquharsons took on their name, becoming Farquharson-Innes. Lewis Farqhuarson-Innes was responsible for the building of the Home Farm, and the "ornamented entrance and a clock in front" (Dinnie, p95). In 1850 the estate was sold to Mr James Dyce Nicol, a former MP for Kincardineshire. He was described as "a progressive landowner, spending large sums of money on his properties".

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56614665

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]