Balfour House Steading

Earlier 19th century. Single storey and attic, U-plan steading. Harled with finely finished granite margins. Base course to N; projecting cills; granite strip quoins; boarded timber doors; cobbled courtyard.

S (COURTYARD) ELEVATION: 7-bay; near-symmetrical; 2-leaf door to centre, flanked to left and right by single windows; doorways to penultimate bays to left and right. Advanced gabled bays to outer left and right, doorway to right return of bay to left; doorway and large opening to left return of bay to right, cast-iron weathervane to apex of gable.

E ELEVATION: asymmetrical; ruined lean-to addition advanced to right of ground floor; flanked to left by window opening.

N ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; window to left; bipartite diamond-pane leaded window to right; wall of lean-to addition adjoining to outer left.

W ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 2-bay; slightly advanced, gabled bay to left with basket-arched doorway, 2-leaf door with strap hinges, window centred above; window to flanking bay to right, 2-pane skylight to attic.

Predominantly 2-pane modern casement windows. Graded grey slate roof with lead ridge. Coped stone skews with simple skewputts. Coped gablehead stack with circular can. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: survives largely intact with remains of swept down timber stalls to centre block.