Description

Mid 19th century. Quadrangular steading with single storey

and attic L-plan house incorporated in SE angle. Squared and

snecked red rubble sandstone with droved ashlar dressings.

STEADING:

S RANGE: segmentally arched carriage pend in raised gabled

bay-off centre to right, with blind oculus in apex. Bothies

flanking pend with 2 doorways and window to left and 1

doorway and window to right. Sliding door under eaves to

right with further window in outer bay. 5 segmentally arched

cartshed openings to left with 4 rectangular granary openings irregularly spaced above. Wide sliding doors to outer right

below granary level.

N RANGE: advanced gabled bay at centre with wide and altered

entrance. Wide openings to E and W ranges in outer bays,

breaking eaves in cat-slide roof to outer left.

E AND W RANGES: few irregular openings; hayloft on W.

COURTYARD:

S RANGE: roof pitch cut above eaves to heighten pend

entrance. Stable doorway under pend to left, forestair to

granary at right. 3 widely grouped segmental arches right of

pend with 4 granary openings above. 2 doorways left of pend.

N RANGE: rectangular opening at centre, flanked by 2

segmental archways each side with outer arches blocked.

E RANGE: 7 segmental archways, 5 of which are blocked.

W RANGE: 6 segmental archways, all blocked.

12-pane glazing to sash and case windows of S range. Pantiled

piend roof, with some corrugated asbestos to sections of

courtyard. Boarded doors and interior shutters to granary

openings.

INTERIOR: 2 droved stone chimneypieces in bothy rooms W of

piend, one with cast-iron range, other with horse-shoe grate.

GRIEVE'S HOUSE:

S ELEVATION: doorway with chamfered arrises in re-entrant

angle with gabled bay of projecting wing to right; boarded

door with strip fanlight. Stone mullioned bipartite at

ground to advanced wing with single 1st floor light above.

Timber mullioned bipartite to outer left with 2 gabled attic

dormer windows, just breaking eaves.

N AND E ELEVATIONS: harled; ground and 1st floor window to E

gable of E-W arm.

4-pane glazing pattern to sash and case windows. End gable

wallhead ashlar stacks to E and W. Steeply pitched pantile

roof with raised coped skews. Former ball finials to gables

at S, one remaining.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17793477

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