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Sluievannachie, Old Line Road, Ballater

A Category B Listed Building in Ballater, Aberdeenshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.0501 / 57°3'0"N

Longitude: -3.0536 / 3°3'12"W

OS Eastings: 336179

OS Northings: 795943

OS Grid: NO361959

Mapcode National: GBR WF.9VFG

Mapcode Global: WH7NL.2254

Plus Code: 9C9R3W2W+2H

Entry Name: Sluievannachie, Old Line Road, Ballater

Listing Name: Old Line Road, Sluievannachie Inclduing Cheese Press and Boundary Wall

Listing Date: 15 July 1988

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 357287

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB21852

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Ballater, Old Line Road, Sluievannachie

ID on this website: 200357287

Location: Ballater

County: Aberdeenshire

Town: Ballater

Electoral Ward: Aboyne, Upper Deeside and Donside

Traditional County: Aberdeenshire

Tagged with: Farmhouse

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Description

Peter Mitchell (builder), 1836-38. Single storey and attic farmhouse with lower rear wing, with later lower extension. Harled with granite margins, predominately to attic floor. Gabled dormers breaking wallhead. Tall diamond stacks. Greek cross detail to E gable apex.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: symmetrical 3-bay S elevation. Central gabled porch with skew putts and shield, dated 1836. Central 4-panelled timber door with Gothic fanlight with intersecting tracery. Flanking bays, window to ground floor and gabled dormer above.

Predominantly 4-pane timber casement windows. Graded grey slates. Granite ashlar skews with moulded skew putts. Gable end stacks with paired diamond flues to W and E elevation. Triple flues to N gable.

INTERIOR: original floor plan largely extant. Some raised and folded panelled shutters. Predominantly 6-panel timber doors. Whitewashed basement with rubble walls and beaten earth floor.

CHEESE PRESS: to W elevation. Pink granite with grey granite weight.

Statement of Interest

One of the earliest buildings in Ballater. The farm has fine detailing an is especially noted for its distinctive stacks and gothic entrance. Unusually for buildings of this type, it has casement windows. Modern housing has encroached on the setting at the N and W. Historic maps show extensive farm buildings. The basement is thought to have been the milk house

The farm was built by and for Peter Mitchell and still remains in the Mitchell family. Family tradition suggests that the name Sluivannachie means 'blessed moor' and refers to the moor to the South of the house as the place where the St Nathalan (who founded one of the first churches in the area in the 7th century), was told by God to sow sand in a time of famine. This then turned into a fine crop.

Previous list description suggests that the farm was harled in 1943, perhaps by the Invercauld Estate.

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