Description

17th/18th and 19th century buildings comprising farm houses
and steading. Rubble, ashlar dressings, most roofs slated.
HOUSE is single storey and crow-stepped; said to date
from circa 1650, but it may be 18th century; whitewashed,
deepened on plan by addition to courtyard with main roof
continued and swept over addition; 3 wide bays with gabled
centre porch; end stacks, one heightened; wing to right
forms L-plan, and is 19th century in appearance. STEADING
essentially a long row, crow-stepped tall barn at end
dates probably from 18th century, large octagonal horsemill
adjoins; lower ranges, part with corrugated iron roof.

Statement of Interest

Report in Aberdeen Press and Journal 28.6.1988

states that Tresness was "built in 1650 by the Traill

family who went to Orkney with the brother of Mary Queen

of Scots"; it is said to occupy the site of a Viking

long house.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17827998

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Recommended Books

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014