Kilchiaran steading

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Kilchiaran steading

The farm buildings of the Kilchiaran Farm are called Kilchiaran Steading . You are in the small, scattered settlement of Kilchiaran near the west coast of the Rhinns of Islay peninsula on the Scottish Hebridean island of Islay . On July 20, 1971, Kilchiaran Steading was added to the British List of Monuments in Category B.

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The exact year of construction of the building is not recorded. However, it is certain that they, like the associated farmhouse, were built in the second quarter of the 19th century, probably shortly after 1826.

The building ensemble is divided into two groups. In the north of the enclosure there is a group of three elongated buildings that were built using a closed construction method. In the west of these buildings there are workshops and shelters for four vehicles. The individual rooms end with flat segmental arches . Above is storage area, which is accessible via external stairs at the rear and the east side of the building. The building is crowned by a gable roof . Set back a few meters, there is a barn to the east, the height of which corresponds to the previous building. A gate with slotted windows on the side is let into the front . A wing continues in a northerly direction across its entire width. A belt-driven threshing machine is housed in this. On the east side you can see the remains of an iron water wheel that once operated the machine. It has a diameter of 4.8 m and a width of 0.8 m. The flow of water from the nearby pond regulated a contactor . In the east of the three buildings there are cowsheds and beet stores. The building has only one storey and, like the central building, has a hipped roof .

The southern part of the building closes to the north with two elongated, one-story buildings, which are arranged parallel to the buildings in the north block. The eastern of the two buildings has recently been converted into a milking parlor. There are stables in the western building. Both buildings are a few meters apart and thus offer the entrance to an inner courtyard. This is delimited by a semicircular building, which extends from the outer flanks of the two buildings and also forms the outer boundary of the site. This eye-catching building houses stables that are connected to the inner courtyards within the semicircle. The inner surface is divided into three segments by two radially running quarry stone walls that run towards the center of the circle. Wide openings formerly led from the stables to the inner courtyard, but have been closed over the years or converted to adapt to a new usage profile.

All buildings are made of clay-jointed quarry stone and, with the exception already mentioned, end with hip roofs. With the exception of a newer extension, all roofs are covered with slate shingles.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  2. ↑ a b c d Entry on Kilchiaran Steading  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)

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Coordinates: 55 ° 45 ′ 19.4 "  N , 6 ° 27 ′ 12"  W.