Barn, Kinloss Home Farm

This is a late 18th century barn, likely originally used as a granary, situated within Kinloss Home Farm. The rectangular building has long east and west elevations. It is constructed of harled rubble stone with ashlar dressings. The east elevation is symmetrical, featuring seven bays. A wide, segmental-headed entrance with double plank doors was later inserted centrally, flanked by ventilation slits. The upper storey has three shuttered loft windows set close under the eaves. The west elevation is similarly arranged with seven bays, including a central square-headed doorway, vents to either side, and six loft windows matching those on the east. A ground floor window and a first-floor loft doorway are found in the south gable, with a more recent forestair leading to a loft entrance in the north gable. Chamfered margins are present across the building, except at the later entrance on the east. The roof has flat skewes with shallow scroll skewputts and a graded local slate covering, topped with apex ball finials.

The building’s history is linked to Kinloss Abbey and the Brodie of Lethen family of Nairnshire; the abbey lands passed to them. The abbey itself was used as a source of stone, and in 1798 it was recorded that remaining stones were used to build a granary by a descendant of Alexander Brodie, and this barn/granary at Abbey Farm is very probably that structure.

The granary appears to have been the focal point of a U-shaped farmyard, and the remains of circa 1800 farm buildings are visible nearby, roofless and forming the southern boundary.