Steading, Proctor's Orphanage

This is a two-storey, three-bay villa with a piend roof, built in 1891 as Proctor's Orphanage, alongside a smaller, single-storey, L-plan steading with a gambrel roof. It is prominently situated on raised ground, at the head of a long drive in fields to the northeast of the benefactor’s home.

The villa’s construction uses large pink granite blocks, roughly stugged and rock-faced in an Aberdeen bond to the sides and rear. A raised base course serves as a ground floor cill course, with raised ashlar margins. A full-height projecting doorpiece in pink granite ashlar incorporates a moulded doorway below a consoled and corniced rectangular panel inscribed "Proctor's Orphan Training Home 1891." This panel is currently boarded over, surmounted by a corniced window with flanking scrollwork and a ball-finialled scrolled pediment featuring a datestone. The roof has deeply overhanging eaves to the piended dormerheads. All windows on the primary elevation and the first floor are bipartite, with pilastered timber mullions.

The principal south elevation features a central doorpiece with a six-panelled timber door, flanking timber pilasters and narrow lights, and a multi-pane fanlight above a first-floor window. Flanking bays each have a corniced window at ground level, with a first-floor window breaking into a tall piended dormerhead. The bay to the right is slightly lower and set back. The side elevations are stepped, with piended dormerheads. Tall, shouldered, corniced, and coped stacks are present on each elevation. Multi-pane glazing is set within timber sash and case windows, over plate glass. Ashlar stacks have cans, and there are ashlar-coped skews. Grey slates cover the roof, complemented by small rooflights, terracotta ridge tiles, and finials.

The interior retains fine decorative details, including moulded plasterwork cornicing, vertically-panelled timber dadoes, architraved doors and windows, timber-panelled shutters, and cast iron radiators. A part-glazed screen door with flanking lights leads to a stairhall featuring decorative plasterwork consoles, a dog-leg staircase with decorative cast iron balusters and a timber handrail, round-arched opening, and margined top light. The principal ground floor room to the southwest retains a timber fire surround with fluted pilasters and a decorative frieze.

The steading is a compact, single-storey, L-plan building, with a long range running north-south and a short arm at the northwest. It is constructed from large granite blocks, coursed and snecked. Openings are timber boarded or blocked (as of 2008), and it has a slated gambrel roof with small rooflights, terracotta ridges, and finials. There is evidence of a pig house, marked by a solid pen wall at the southeast corner.