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Little Ballo

A Category C Listed Building in Longforgan, Perth and Kinross

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.4988 / 56°29'55"N

Longitude: -3.1955 / 3°11'43"W

OS Eastings: 326502

OS Northings: 734717

OS Grid: NO265347

Mapcode National: GBR VD.2KNJ

Mapcode Global: WH6PW.WXJB

Plus Code: 9C8RFRX3+GR

Entry Name: Little Ballo

Listing Name: Little Ballo Farmhouse, Including Garden Wall and Steading

Listing Date: 25 February 1993

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 346377

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB13266

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200346377

Location: Longforgan

County: Perth and Kinross

Electoral Ward: Carse of Gowrie

Parish: Longforgan

Traditional County: Perthshire

Tagged with: Farmhouse

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Description

FARMHOUSE: Earlier 19th century with later additions. Single storey and attic, irregular-plan farmhouse. Random rubble, stugged ashlar dressings, slate roof. Single 4-pane sash and case windows; deep eaves with plain bargeboards; brick end stacks rising through eaves.

S ELEVATION: door to centre right with fanlight and later porch, gabled dormerhead breaking through eaves above; window to right, dormer; window to left.

E ELEVATION: single storey, piend-roofed bay with door and 2 windows advanced from gable.

W GABLE: window to ground and attic floor.

N ELEVATION: later stairwell bay advanced to centre, lattice-paned window, half-piended roof; bay to right re-entrant angle with window and swept roof.

INTERIOR: no special features.

GARDEN WALL: round-coped rubble garden wall to S.

STEADING: near rectangular-plan steading of different periods, consisting of early 19th century cart-shed and granary to N, 2 earlier 19th century ranges to E and W, late 19th century cattle court to centre, stable dated 1896 to NW angle, modern buildings masking N elevation of cart-shed range. Rubble, ashlar dressings (some red sandstone), shuttered concrete stable, piended and gabled slate roofs.

S ELEVATION: 4 gables, 2 at centre partially boarded, blank to left, piended with door and granary opening to right.

W ELEVATION: 3-opening implement shed to right with timber columns, 3-bay stable to left.

E ELEVATION: various doors, 2 granary openings.

INTERIOR: square-headed cart-arches; original feeding troughs; hecks; trevises.

Statement of Interest

Little Ballo was part of the Rossie Estate.

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