Steading And Walled Garden, Invererne Home Farm, Invererne House

Probably dating to 1818, the steading at Invererne Home Farm is a courtyard arrangement, single-storied with an attic, and has undergone various modern alterations. The main east frontage is of pinned, tooled ashlar, while the rest of the steading is of harl-pointed rubble with some modern harling, complemented by tooled and polished ashlar dressings and margins. The east front has nine bays, with slightly advanced and gabled outer bays (carriage houses) and a central, two-story dovecote tower. Three bays to the right have been converted into a cottage, featuring angle pilasters and an alighting ledge fronting blocked flightholes. This cottage section has a shallow pyramidal roof with deep eaves and an apex cupola topped with a weathervane. The dwelling and former stables include pointed-headed doorways flanked by windows with contrasting painted margins. The south elevation features a tall, central basket-arched entrance to the inner court, flanked to the left by three lower arched cart-bays, and to the right by a three-bay cottage masked by a modern porch and two modern box dormers. The north elevation has a five-bay cottage range with modern harling and two piended dormers breaking the wallhead. Varied glazing is present throughout, with ridge stacks and slate roofs.

The walled garden, constructed in 1825, is a substantial enclosure at the north side of the steading range, built with rubble walls topped with a tooled cope.

The steading is presumed to have been built by General William Grant around the same time he built Invererne House. Records from the Grant of Tannachy papers detail repairs from 1822 and work to lay cobbles within the courtyard in 1823. The walled garden covers approximately four roods (one acre), with walling costing £40.8s.10 1/2d. It was inspected on 11 November 1825 by Mr Peter Thomson, Wright, Forres, and Alex Cumming, mason.

Invererne was formerly known as Tannachy until around 1834.