Description

Early 19th century. Single storey, symmetrical 3-bay, traditional rectangular-plan croft house. Harled rubble sandstone.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: doorway at centre; boarded door; 2-light letterbox fanlight. Single windows in bays to outer left and right.

E (REAR) ELEVATION: small single window to centre; evidence of former addition to outer right.

N AND S ELEVATION: blank gabled bay.

12-pane sash and case windows. Grey slate roof swept at eaves; 2 coped gablehead stacks; 2 cast-iron skylights to W; block skewputts; stone ridging.

OUTBUILDINGS: immediately to N of croft house; single storey, slaister-pointed sandstone rubble; grey slate roof with stone ridging; block skewputts.

BOATHOUSE: gabled rubble sandstone boathouse to N bank of the Ythan.

Statement of Interest

The last ferry acroos the Ythan was run by Tom Pirie, or "Boatie Tam"

(d 1992), whose family had lived in the croft house and operated the ferry since the mid 19th century.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17778346

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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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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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)