This range of buildings developed from a building now underlying No 5, a very long byre, which may have had a house at the far end.
Byre No 6, a well preserved structure which was never occupied by people, was added later; the position of the timber feeding troughs can be seen at each end where the grass is growing.
A further byre No 7, was added which was subsequently adopted by a blacksmith who set up permanent premises with a forge and bellows to ply his trade. Strangely the smith’s anvil was left behind when the fermtoun was finally abandoned in the mid-18th century; this is now on display at Biggar Museum. Until the mid-20th century there was a tradition of a travelling blacksmith coming annually to the present farm of Glenochar.
