Description

Monogrammed Peddie and Kinnear, Edinburgh, dated 1865.
Quadrangular steading incorporating house to W;
enclosing 2 covered cattle courts now altered to modern
use. Mixed sandstone and whinstone rubble, possibly
using building material already on site with grey
sandstone dressings, chamfered arrises to major
openings.
S RANGE: 11-bay entrance front encompassing 2 five-
arched cart sheds with granaries above; segmentally
arched pend to central gabled block. Window with roll-
moulded cill course above to crowstepped gabled
dormerheads to each side. Range terminates in gable
ends; window at ground and 1st floor to left, arched
cart opening to right with wooden doors, window above.
W RANGE: comprising 2 stables each of 8 stalls to N,
granaries with loft to S. Crowstepped L-plan gabled
cottage left of centre adjoining blank outside wall of
steading. Single storey with partial attic, entrance
through porch in re-entrant angle. Sash and case
windows with 12-pane glazing pattern. Boiler house to
S with crowstepped gables and slit window, brick stalk
with ashlar base adjoining at left.
N AND E RANGES: accommodating further stables and
granary, now adapted for modern use. Range, probably
incorporating earlier steading adjoining house to E,
comprising of cart shed with 2 drum piers supporting
lintel, and 2 outhouses.
Grey slates, crowstepped gables, beak skewputts;
moulded skews to dormers, corbelling to SW corner.
Single brick stack to cottage.

Statement of Interest

Adjoining farmhouse also remodelled by Peddie and

Kinnear (listed separately). Stables currently (1988)

undergoing some alteration. tall chimney on W range

particularly noteworthy.

Cottages to NE also by Peddie and Kinnear, 1856.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17792143

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