Help needed to identify old house in Rayne - ? Old Mill, Blackford?

[rowanali]

Hi, I have an old photo of a house.  It is very poor quality as is taken from a photocopy.  There are 2 possible identities for the house - one, Lagganvoulin near Tomintoul, or secondly, at or near "Old Mill, Blackford, Rayne, Aberdeenshire.

A family of Munro's lived in this house, but they lived at both of the above addresses. 
Any help to eliminate the Rayne option would be gratefully received.

I think the photo is taken between around the turn of the century i.e. late 1800's or early 1900's
Rowanali

[Treetotal]

Not sure if this is the same property:

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1126522

Or this:

https://visitcairngorms.com/dbaccommodation-Lagganvoulin_Cottage/2959.html

Carol

[Treetotal]

The second one looks promising...although there looks to be an extension added to the right...the roof windows look similar.

Carol

[Treetotal]

This is a better photo of it here:

https://www.lagganvoulin.co.uk/

Carol

[rowanali]

Yes, indeed the second option (Lagganvoulin) is where this trail began.  We own the property and have been researching its families back to 1740 (albeit an earlier version of the house/s).  The photo is actually labelled 'Lagganvoulin' but the topography of the land isn't quite right (even allowing for the trees not being there 100 years ago), and the chimney stacks are the opposite way around - Lagganvoulin has a double chimney to the left of front door, whilst the photo has its double chimney to the right.

I am hoping it is Lagganvoulin, but the person who labelled the photos would never have been there, and grew up hearing about Lagganvoulin (long family history with the house).  However, by the age of photos of the ancestors who lived in it, I think the family had by then moved to Rayne.

Was hoping someone in Rayne could perhaps shed light. 

Thanks for the link to the other photo - that is definitely worth a drive by to check it out, or perhaps I will drop the photo in the post to them!

Thanks,

[Gadget]

Well found, Carol,  Lagganvoulin

They do a very good single malt 

[Forfarian]

They do a very good single malt 

If you mean Lagavulin, that isn't from Tomintoul. It's an Islay malt.

[Forfarian]

The topography of the old photo doesn't look quite right for a mill either - mills are usually down beside the watercourse that drove them, rather than on higher ground.

[Gadget]

They do a very good single malt 

If you mean Lagavulin, that isn't from Tomintoul. It's an Islay malt.

Oh - thanks. I'm getting my Speysides and Island malts mixed up