Description

BARN: Mid 18th century, substantial single storey and loft
barn with mill wheel at W on sloping site. Rubble, tooled
ashlar dressings. Long 5-bay elevations E and W with
chamfered margins to loft windows. Large entrance slapped in
E elevation. Local slate roof.
IMPLEMENT SHED: mid-later 18th century, 3-bay E facing
implement shed with gabled roof and series of slender gable
tuskers (for securing ropes holding down former thatch);
Welsh slate roof; run-off cavetto skewputts.

Statement of Interest

Byres and former stables grouped around small square court at

N end of barn not included in listing. There is a blocked

door with re-used (?17th century) moulded jambs in this

court.

Slates on barn probably came from Slateheugh quarry on the S

side of the Hill of Maud. Tuskers for securing thatch very

unusual survival in Moray.

Rannas was the ancestral home of the Hay's of Rannas. Andrew

Hay, the last of the line, died in 1789, after which the

property was bought by the Earl of Seafield.

Barn and implement shed only included in listing.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17827819

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