Newbigging Steading

Dated 1881, Newbigging Steading is a courtyard-plan farm steading, flanked by a tall, linear implement shed to the west and a single-storey, rectangular-plan cowshed to the east, with the cowshed built before 1914. A lower, L-plan range was attached to the north wall of the implement sheds before 1914. Around 2001, the buildings were converted into 13 residential units by Simpson and Brown Architects.

The principal elevation is faced with bull-faced sandstone with polished margins, a base course, stop-chamfered arrises and angles, and long and short quoins. Side and rear elevations use stugged, squared, and snecked sandstone with droved margins. Most windows are eight-pane timber sash and case; the buildings have a graded grey slate piended roof and cast iron rainwater goods.

The south (principal) elevation is 15 bays wide and symmetrical, with a slightly advanced and gabled centre bay containing a segmental-arched pend with moulded reveals. Above the pend is a corbel table at first floor, articulated around a carved shield datestone reading '1881', a blind slip-window in the gablehead, and a ball finial at the apex. Entrances have vertically boarded timber doors with two-pane fanlights; some former entrances are now blocked with vertically boarded timber. Four timber-louvred ventilators are located below the roof eaves, and there are four gabled hayloft dormers with blind cruciform arrowslits, a finial, a moulded skew, and shaped skewputts.

The east and west elevations feature piend-roofed dormerheads to loft openings and two-pane fixed loft windows below the eaves. The west elevation includes large flat-arched openings and a full-height pend opening that has been infilled with horizontal cedar boarding and doors. The north elevation has a raised wallhead to the centre three bays, a later addition, and a loft opening in the bay to the outer left. Single-storey additions were added to the inner courtyard around 2001.

To the west are three tall, rectangular, piend-roofed implement and vehicle sheds connected by a stone archway. A lower L-plan range is attached to the north, forming No. 12. These buildings are constructed of stugged, squared, and snecked sandstone, and the east elevation's original arcade of cast-iron columns has been infilled. A piended grey slate roof covers these structures, and single-storey additions span the full length of the east and north elevations, dating from around 2001.

The former cowshed is a single-storey, rectangular-plan building to the east, built of bull-faced sandstone with polished and droved ashlar dressings, and stop-chamfered arrises to margins and angles. The side and rear elevations use stugged, squared, and snecked sandstone. Timber cubic ventilators with pyramidal caps and finials are on the roof ridge and the building has a graded grey slate roof with skews and bracket skewputts.