Steading Range, Ardmeallie House

The Steading Range at Ardmeallie House dates from around 1750, with later additions made by A Marshall Mackenzie in 1900. This two-storey, five-bay laird's house features a raised basement and a piended roof. It is constructed from coursed whinstone rubble with galleting, likely originally harled, and has raised granite ashlar margins, rusticated quoins, and a modillioned cornice. The basement and rear of the building are harled.

On the southeast elevation, ashlar steps lead to the entrance at the principal floor, which features a porch supported by Corinthian columns and an entablature. The entrance has double, two-leaf doors with a strip fanlight that includes latticed glazing. There are four windows on the principal floor and basement, and five windows on the first floor. Flanking the main structure are two single-storey wings from 1900, each with a piended roof and two windows on each floor.

The northeast elevation has a polygonal-roofed, canted stair tower that projects at the center, with a door at ground level and two stair windows above. There is an unfortunate lean-to addition on the right side at ground level, which includes a window in the outer bay and two blocked windows on the first floor. To the left, there are two windows on each floor, and a canted, piend-roofed dormer in the attic.

Adjoining at right angles to the east is a single-storey, three-bay steading range that forms a court. It features two broad, basket-arched cart arches, now with a glazed door on the outer left side. The coach-house is located to the north of the house.

On the east and west elevations, there are two windows on the first floor of each gable. The sash and case windows, dating from around 1900, have six-pane upper sashes and two-pane lower sashes, with some 12-pane glazing retained at the rear. The piended roof is covered with grey slates and has swept eaves, while broad, tall corniced ashlar stacks with decorative cans rise above.

Inside, the layout is tripartite, with some retained plasterwork. The doors and shutters are six-panelled, raised and fielded. A stone turnpike stair leads to the first floor from the rear stair tower. The drawing room on the west side of the first floor features a coved ceiling and a simple cornice, along with some original fire-surrounds. The kitchen and steading range include bread-ovens.

The coachhouse, located to the north of the house, is a single-storey structure with a segmental arch on the west gable and an ashlar belfry above topped with a weathervane.

The boundary walls and gatepiers consist of rubble garden walls and ashlar gatepiers to the north, which are corniced and topped with ball finials.