Initial plans for the Stonemason’s shed. Paradoxically this will be a brick building (records show it was built of bricks from the Brora Brickworks; the bricks were probably taken on as ballast by a coastal steamer and then unloaded at Kinlochy), with a stone plinth and stone platform and a slate roof. The design is my own and will be refined further.

At this stage I’m tempted to build this “properly”: using stones for the base and scale bricks as well as wood and glass for the windows, and full roof timbers and slates for the roof... Maybe that will be too ambitious, however I think I shall give it a try once I reach the stage of constructing the buildings.