Southwick Home Farm
The Southwick Home Farm is a farm near the Scottish village of Southerness in the Council Area Dumfries and Galloway . In 1981 the structure was included in the Scottish monument lists in the highest monument category A.
history
Around 1750 was manor Southwick House built. A manor was later added, the Southwick Home Farm. The system has been revised several times in the course of its history. The buildings that are preserved today are essentially from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, although various older fragments have been incorporated.
description
The Southwick Home Farm is located on the A710 about four kilometers northwest of Southerness and a few hundred meters north of the coast of the Solway Firth . The facility is unusually large and functionally planned. In addition to a farmhouse, the complex includes stables, barns, a dairy and cheese dairy, and a water mill. The masonry of the building is made of quarry stone .
The farmhouse is part of a U-shaped, two-story building to the northwest of the complex. Another farmhouse is in the southern section. This is symmetrical and has three axes. Its twin windows are lined with brick . In 1914 the building was expanded. The dairy is set up on the ground floor in the attached area. Above is the cheese dairy, which is supplied with steam via a pipe from a neighboring building. The final roofs are slated.
An L-shaped building in the northern part offers space for three steam boilers on the ground floor. The generated steam is fed to the cheese bases via pipes. These are accessible from the outside via a staircase on the east side. Stables are housed in other rooms on the ground floor. A cast iron , medium-sized water wheel drives the two-story mill. The wheel has a diameter of around 4.5 m. It used to power various devices, including a threshing machine and, from the early 20th century, a milking machine. Although the machineries are no longer preserved, the mill wheel and the mill stream with the dammed pond are in good condition. To the southwest of the mill is a late 18th to early 19th century barn.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Entry on Southwick Home Farm in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database
Coordinates: 54 ° 53 ′ 42.9 " N , 3 ° 39 ′ 33.6" W.