Leslie Adam took a lease of the piece of ground of approximately quarter of and acre across the lane from Gellie's feu on Station Road in 1877, the rental for which was £2 per year plus any parochial burdens.

That would have given the laird a projected income of £800 pounds per acre over a century, not a very great sum even in those far off days of little or no inflation.

Leslie Adam, who was the son of a Monymusk crofter proceeded, as the other entrepreneurs before him, to build a tenement alongside a commercial building.  Adam also ran a business from the site, dealing in cattle feed, coal and other similar products.