Balfour House Steading

Balfour House Steading is an earlier 19th-century U-plan steading that is single storey with an attic. The exterior is harled and features finely finished granite margins, a base course to the north, projecting cills, granite strip quoins, boarded timber doors, and a cobbled courtyard.

The south elevation, facing the courtyard, is seven bays wide and near-symmetrical. It has a central two-leaf door flanked by single windows on either side, with doorways to the penultimate bays on the left and right. The outer bays are advanced and gabled, with a doorway on the right return of the left bay and a doorway along with a large opening on the left return of the right bay. A cast-iron weathervane sits at the apex of the gable.

The east elevation is asymmetrical, featuring a ruined lean-to addition that is advanced to the right on the ground floor, with a window opening to the left.

The north elevation is near-symmetrical, with a window to the left and a bipartite diamond-pane leaded window to the right. The wall of the lean-to addition is adjacent to the outer left side.

The west elevation is asymmetrical and consists of two bays. It has a slightly advanced gabled bay on the left with a basket-arched doorway, a two-leaf door with strap hinges, and a window centered above. There is also a window in the flanking bay to the right and a two-pane skylight in the attic.

The building predominantly features modern two-pane casement windows and has a graded grey slate roof with a lead ridge. The roof is finished with coped stone skews and simple skewputts, and there is a coped gablehead stack with a circular can. The cast-iron rainwater goods are also present.

Inside, the interior remains largely intact, with remnants of swept down timber stalls in the center block.