Killhopeburn Shielding

Killhopeburn Shieling is a bastle house with added cowhouses, now serving as a cowhouse and implement store. It dates from the late 16th century and later. The structure is built of roughly-squared sandstone rubble, with roofs made of Welsh slate and stone flags, along with corrugated iron pent roofs at the rear. The building has two storeys and five bays. The oldest central bay features massive irregular quoins, with the lowest measuring one metre wide. There is a 20th-century door beneath a thin wooden lintel, with a blank wall above it. The left part of the building has boarded vehicle and store-room doors, along with loft doors above. The higher right section includes a doorway with a chamfered stone lintel on the left and three boarded loft openings on the first floor. Inside the right part, there is a low round-headed doorway from the bastle, featuring a massive irregular chamfered monolith arch and jambs. This section also has closely-spaced massive beams, while the interiors of the other parts have not been inspected.