Buildings of the Land

Scotland's Farms 1750-2000

The story of the changing countryside of Scotland can be traced through its buildings. All the successive phases of agricultural development - from the 18th century revolution of ‘Improvement’ to the factory farming of the 20th century - are recorded in stone, concrete and steel.

The result of over ten years’ research by RCAHMS, this book records farm buildings across the many regions of the nation. The result is a volume richly illustrated with plans, drawings and photographs covering a wide variety of building types – from great estates and lowland steadings to highland crofts – and tracing their evolution against the development of modern Scottish agriculture over the past 300 years.

Susanna Wade Martins and Miles Glendinning, with contributors Peter Caunt and John Shaw, present a fascinating story of diversity and change, which will be of great interest to those concerned with agricultural, architectural, social and landscape history, and the future of Scotland’s countryside.

“An excellent, beautifully produced book with a well researched text… RCAHMS have done well to produce such a comprehensive work.”
Ewan Pate, Farming Editor, The Dundee Courier

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