Description

Peter Mitchell (builder), 1836-38. Single storey and attic farmhouse with lower rear wing, with later lower extension. Harled with granite margins, predominately to attic floor. Gabled dormers breaking wallhead. Tall diamond stacks. Greek cross detail to E gable apex.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: symmetrical 3-bay S elevation. Central gabled porch with skew putts and shield, dated 1836. Central 4-panelled timber door with Gothic fanlight with intersecting tracery. Flanking bays, window to ground floor and gabled dormer above.

Predominantly 4-pane timber casement windows. Graded grey slates. Granite ashlar skews with moulded skew putts. Gable end stacks with paired diamond flues to W and E elevation. Triple flues to N gable.

INTERIOR: original floor plan largely extant. Some raised and folded panelled shutters. Predominantly 6-panel timber doors. Whitewashed basement with rubble walls and beaten earth floor.

CHEESE PRESS: to W elevation. Pink granite with grey granite weight.

Statement of Interest

One of the earliest buildings in Ballater. The farm has fine detailing an is especially noted for its distinctive stacks and gothic entrance. Unusually for buildings of this type, it has casement windows. Modern housing has encroached on the setting at the N and W. Historic maps show extensive farm buildings. The basement is thought to have been the milk house

The farm was built by and for Peter Mitchell and still remains in the Mitchell family. Family tradition suggests that the name Sluivannachie means 'blessed moor' and refers to the moor to the South of the house as the place where the St Nathalan (who founded one of the first churches in the area in the 7th century), was told by God to sow sand in a time of famine. This then turned into a fine crop.

Previous list description suggests that the farm was harled in 1943, perhaps by the Invercauld Estate.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17774050

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