Description

1833. Double U-plan steading with centre cattle courts now covered. Squared whinstone and snecked rubble with contrasting raised ashlar quoins. Base and eaves courses. 6-bay cart arch range.

OUTER U: variety of largely unaltered openings to each elevation.

E RANGE - SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: piended elevation with bipartite window to each floor, that to 1st floor breaking eaves into dormerhead.

E RANGE - SW (COURTYARD) ELEVATION 6 segmentally-arched cart bays with ashlar piers, stop-chamfered arrises, pulvinated impost blocks and continuous voussoired arches, stone forestair to right of centre and dwellings beyond to right.

W RANGE - SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: window to centre at ground, and 3-tiered dovecot opening above.

INNER U: variety of largely unaltered openings to each elevation.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATIONS: each arm with door to centre at ground, windows in flanking bays and 3 square windows at 1st floor. Screen wall to centre with 2 sets of square-section coped gatepiers, now raised in stone to M-gable covering cattle courts.

Statement of Interest

Group with Kilmux farmhouse. Built at a cost of ?2,000 by James Blyth Fernie, agricultural improver, Kilmux was "the best steading in the parish" (NSA), and has long been regarded as a 'model' farm. Also mentioned in the NSA is "a thrashing machine, and .... two pairs of stones for grinding oats". Mr Fernie and Mr Anderson of Monthrive (sic) were also noted for using 'the frequent drain system' and the 'skeleton trenching plough' an invention improved upon by Henry Thallan, blacksmith, of nearby Smiddy-green. Kilmux House, walled garden and lodge house are all listed separately.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17795866

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
• 
  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
• 
  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House