Farmstead Cottage, Drum Farm, The Drum, Gilmerton, Edinburgh

Early 19th century group of farmbuildings to SE of Stables.

SW RANGE comprising: COTTAGE: single storey, random rubble with ashlar dressings. Timber boarded door to NE elevation with 3-pane letterbox fanlight over, bipartite flanking at right, single window to left. SW ELEVATION: door as above, windows flanking. Timber sash and case windows with small-pane glazing pattern. Red pantiles, ashlar coped skews, ashlar coped stacks with simple cornice. Brick lean to addition to NE gable adjoining: DOVECOT: 2-stage lectern dovecot, rubble with ashlar dressings; entrance to SW; lean-to greenhouse at ground floor, door above to centre flanked by 2 small openings; catslide roof broken by row of flight holes, grey slates, ashlar coped skews. Lower, lean-to 1-bay range to left, linked to and now part of adjoining cottages to NW.

Single storey, 3-bay harled range to right, probably originally

1 cottage with glazed door to right, 2-bay rubble range adjoining to left with square windows. Timber sash and case windows with 12-pane glazing pattern, grey slates, ashlar coped skews, brick ridge stack.

RANGE at right angles to NW: ashlar coped, rubble screen wall to stable court with some openings, now overgrown, adjoining GAMEKEEPER?S COTTAGE: to NE; single storey cottage with 3 widely spaced-bays, entrance from SE, harled at front, ruibble sides and rear. Door to centre, windows flanking, 2 small piended dormers to attic. 1 window at ground floor to rear. Timber sash and case windows with 12-pane glazing pattern. Grey slates, ashlar coped skews, 1 coped ashlar end stack, other renewed and rendered, brick wall-head stack at rear.

Additional range of rubble SCREEN WALLS to animal pens to SE; 2 central doorways flanked by 2 cruciform arrow slit openings to right, one simple arrow slit to left.