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Latitude: 57.806 / 57°48'21"N
Longitude: -3.8516 / 3°51'5"W
OS Eastings: 290065
OS Northings: 881107
OS Grid: NH900811
Mapcode National: GBR J8V2.Y50
Mapcode Global: WH4F3.T224
Plus Code: 9C9RR44X+C9
Entry Name: South Western Farmworkers Cottage, Meikle Tarrel
Listing Name: Tarrel Farm (Formerly Meikle Tarrel), Farmworkers Cottages
Listing Date: 29 October 1999
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 393860
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB46522
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Meikle Tarrel, South Western Farmworkers Cottage
ID on this website: 200393860
Location: Tarbat
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Tain and Easter Ross
Parish: Tarbat
Traditional County: Cromartyshire
Tagged with: Cottage
Late 18th century; with mid 20th century porches added. 2-storey, 9-bay row, comprising 3 pairs of mirrored narrow farmworkers cottages. Whitewashed rubble with sandstone dressings.
SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: symmetrical; lean-to porches with corrugated roofs to centre of each cottage, timber doors to right (E) returns. Windows flanking porches to left and right at ground and 1st floors.
NE ELEVATION: gabled; blank.
NW ELEVATION: predominantly blank, single opening under eaves to right.
SW ELEVATION: gabled; blank, with timber lean-to addition at ground floor.
Variety of timber framed casement, and sash and case windows, some with lying-panes. Graded Ballachulish slate roof with stone ridge. Stone skews. Coped sandstone gablehead and ridge stacks with predominantly octagonal cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.
INTERIORS: 19th century timber lining; paired timber staircases; stone slab fire surrounds.
The cottages at Tarrel Farm are a good example of largely unaltered early farmworkers cottages. The 2-storey composition is highly unusual for the period and building type. The cottages were presumably built when George Mackenzie ("Farmer George") took up a 19 year lease at what was then called Meikle Tarrel in 1798. The New Statistical Account notes that the "lands were in a state of wretchedness, and their houses afforded accommodation for neither man nor beast" (p468). George Mackenzie was not only responsible for improving Meikle Tarrel, but also introduced the first methods of modern husbandry to this area.
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