Western House

Western House is a house dated 1755, featuring the initials TMI on the door lintel, and incorporates earlier bastle fabric. It is built of rubble with long, roughly-shaped quoins and cut dressings, topped with a Scottish slate roof. The house has two storeys and three slightly irregular bays. There is a right-of-centre four-panel door set in a chamfered surround with the dated lintel above, and an 8-pane fixed casement window above it. The flanking bays contain paired 8-pane windows below and 6-pane windows above, all set in chamfered surrounds. The windows in the end bays were formerly of two lights. To the left of the window above the door, there are two tiers of blocked pigeon holes. The left gable is coped and features a stack that has been rebuilt in brick on an older stone base, while the right end stack is rendered. An adjacent later house to the right has been altered and is not of interest. Inside, recent alterations have revealed a gable-headed byre door of the bastle in the east wall, which is now concealed.