Achray Farm, Brig O'Turk

Achray Farm comprises a group of farm buildings including a farmhouse, outhouses, a henhouse, and a bothy. The group shows evidence of development across the 18th and 19th centuries, and was formerly known as Bridge of Michael farm and operated as a multi-tenancy farm.

The double range of outhouses is likely from the 18th century, originally possibly used as byres. Each range has only a single door opening on the south elevation and are presently used as stores. The single-storey buildings step to follow the ground’s slope, which falls away to the east, with shorter, blank rear (north) elevations where the ground level is higher. They have white-washed rubble walls with boulder footings and corrugated iron roofs with cast iron rooflights in the south slopes. The eastern-most building retains timber cruck-posts embedded in the walls, evidence of the original thatched roof, though the spanning roof timbers have been sawn off. Simple timber stall divisions are present in the eastern-most building.

The farmhouse dates to the 19th century and is single-storey with an attic. It is harled with a pitched slated roof. A corrugated iron porch is centrally located on the north elevation, and a rubble addition with a mono-pitched slated roof, swept down from the main roof, is situated centrally on the south elevation, flanked by later corrugated iron additions. A dormer has been added into the slope of the roof. Some original 4-paned timber sash and case windows remain, while the west gable end at ground level has been altered with modern glazing.

The henhouse is a single-storey rectangular structure with whitewashed rubble walls, boulder footings and a pitched corrugated tin roof. A door is centrally positioned on the west gable, and a small flight hole with a ledge is off-centre on the east gable. Simple step-ladders are inside.

The bothy is a single-storey building with white-washed rubble walls and a pitched slated roof with end stacks. The east elevation has asymmetrical openings; an altered full-height slanting section is on the left, a door with a vertically-boarded timber door is off-centre, and small windows are to the left of the door. The west elevation has three windows, the centre one being smaller, and is off-centre. The windows have timber lintels and frames set into the rubble walls without surrounds, and contain single plate glass or 2-pane sash and case glazing.

The farm is located near Loch Achray, and is shown on the first edition Ordnance Survey map from 1858-63.