2020

NT0157 : An Intriguing Ruin just off Cobbinshaw Approach Road

taken 4 years ago, near to Woolfords Cottages, South Lanarkshire, Scotland

An Intriguing Ruin just off Cobbinshaw Approach Road
An Intriguing Ruin just off Cobbinshaw Approach Road
The only things that can be said with any certainty about this ruin are that it is a) very old, and b) has not been used in a very long time! Everything else is guesswork...
The building is simply marked as a ruin on the earliest OS map of the area from 1853. Considering construction work began on the reservoir in the 1810s it is plausible that it once belonged to a farm that lost its land to the reservoir and therefore was no longer viable.
What it actually was is also a bit of a mystery, to me anyway. Main building is rectangular with two surprisingly well preserved gable ends. The doorways at both ends though, are split into two. On the Northern doorway (pictured) the lintel is at waist height, on the Southern doorway the lintel is at about shoulder height. Furthermore, the picture was taken from the middle of a roughly semicircular walled section which is joined to the main building. My guess is that animals had the run of the semicircular area / sheepfold, and the bottom of the main building, and there was a floor above for storage, though this doesn't really explain why the two lintels are at different heights.
Tarbrax Bing can be seen in the distance to the right of the ruin.

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Geographical Context: Farm, Fishery, Market Gardening Derelict, Disused Primary Subject: Ruin
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Ends [2] · Road [2] · Tarbrax [2] ·
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NT0157, 27 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Ian Dodds   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Tuesday, 28 July, 2020   (more nearby)
Submitted
Thursday, 30 July, 2020
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NT 010 579 [100m precision]
WGS84: 55:48.2520N 3:34.8587W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NT 010 579
View Direction
South-southeast (about 157 degrees)
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