Description
Probably James Burn, earlier 19th century. Quadrangular
stable court and steading with cottages. Coursed and snecked
rubble to S range, with ashlar dressings, and rubble to other
ranges. Set on ground falling to N.
S RANGE: designed with modest pretensions to grandeur;
irregular openings, with alterations. Bold centrepiece with
pend with blind arched head, flanking blind trefoils; band
course at impost level and rat course above; arched opening
to dovecot at centre, of upper stage and cornice and blocking
course above. Gabled dovecot above pend. Cottage windows
flanking pend to left; blocked window and machinery doors to
right. Advanced outer bays, detailed as pend bay without the
upper dovecot stage; timber doors to cartshed entrance below
hayloft door in right bay and window in blinded recess in
left arch.
W RANGE: irregular openings to cottages; doorway off-centre
to left, flanked by small window to right and by pointed arch
windows to each side. Further door to right flanked by
pointed arch window to left; small tripartite windows,
inserted later to outer bays.
COURTYARD: much altered in detrimental manner and in
neglected state; timber columned cartshed to courtyard side.
Small-pane glazing with intersecting tracery to pointed arch
windows, in sash and case form.