Home Farm, Kemnay House

Home Farm, probably dating from the mid-18th century and subsequently altered, comprises a group of ranges creating an irregular steading, including a former coachhouse and coachman’s house. The ranges are constructed of squared rubble, with some chamfered arrises.

The southeast range, originally a linhay and stables, was converted into two dwellings in 1990. It has a piended roof and features boarded timber doors and timber sash windows with small panes of glass. The southeast (principal) elevation has a canopied door centrally positioned at ground floor level, with windows in the flanking bays. To the outer left is a voussoired cart arch with an adjoining door, and a two-leaf door to the right, both with flanking windows. The first floor has four windows, and five rooflights are above. The northwest (rear) elevation has openings grouped to the left, with four windows flanking a stone forestair leading to a first-floor door. This, along with two windows to the left, break through the eaves into piended dormerheads, and a further window is to the right. A variety of small rooflights are present. The southwest elevation features a window at ground floor level, with another breaking through the eaves into a dormerhead above.

The southwest range has a piend roof with a modern diamond-pattern felt covering, boarded timber doors and fixed six-pane glazing patterns. The northeast elevation has a bay to the left of centre with a door below a louvered opening, a further first-floor opening to the right, with a small ground floor opening and a ventilation slit beyond, and a fixed window to the outer right. The northwest (entrance) elevation has a two-leaf door to the left and a further door to the right.

The north range is a large, gabled, L-plan range with a modern corrugated roof and some blocked openings. It contains ashlar-coped skewes and block skewputts. The southeast elevation has a gabled elevation featuring a voussoired cart arch. The northeast elevation displays three grouped doors to the right of centre, with a projecting bay to the outer right. The southwest elevation shows blocked openings and an altered gable to the outer left.

The steading is shown on George Burnett’s 1759 ‘Plan of Kemnay Farm, Gardens and New Ground’. The southeast range was damaged by fire in the 1920s. Nearby buildings which complete the farmstead, but are not included in this listing, are a farmhouse (now altered), a 19th-century Gardeners Cottage, and a ruinous farm worker's dwelling known as Rose Cottage.