Description

SKIPPER'S QUARTERS AND BOTHY

Earlier 19th century. Single storey and attic, 6-bay, rectangular plan former Skipper's Quarters and Bothy. Random rubble, painted to SE and SW.

SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; piend-roofed boarded timber porch to penultimate bay to left, flanked to left and right by single windows; doorway to penultimate bay to right, flanked by irregularly windows.

NE ELEVATION: gabled; doorway to left of ground floor, flanked by flat-roofed low addition at right; timber steps lead to opening set in

gablehead; weather-vane to gable apex. NW ELEVATION: asymmetrical; irregularly placed openings.

SW ELEVATION: gabled; single window to right.

Predominantly timber sash and case windows. Slate roof. Stone skews with blocked skewputts. Gablehead and ridge stacks with circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 2000.

ICE HOUSE

Earlier 19th century. 2-chambered ice house set in hillside to E of Skipper's House and Bothy facing SE. Squared rubble. Gabled SE elevation, wall advanced to left at ground floor, doorway flanking to right, gable-line of former structure survives. Inner chamber vaulted.

Statement of Interest

Salmon fishing was important to the community of St Cyrus. Woodston Fishing station, which was run by Joseph Johnston & Sons, Ltd, est. 1826, is mentioned in the New Statistical Account as a major salmon fishery. The survival of the ice house is particularly significant. In the 18th century ice houses became used by fisheries to store and provide ice to pack the fish (previously fish was pickled, or packed in salt) which allowed fresh fish to be easily transported. Most of the fish produced at Woodston was sold in Edinburgh and London.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17779280

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)