Stables And Coach House, Newliston House

The stables and coach house, likely designed by William Adam in the early 18th century and with mid-19th century additions by David Bryce, are situated to the southwest of Newliston House. The complex comprises a two-story, seven-bay stable block and coach house, with a mid-19th century courtyard and rear range of buildings—likely by Bryce—that subsequently served as a home farm. The construction is primarily rubble sandstone with ashlar dressings, rusticated quoins, and prominent openings. There is harl pointing, an impost band, cornice, keystones to the central bays, an eaves band, and brick-bracketed pediments with ball finials.

The east elevation is symmetrical, featuring seven bays, with the central five bays projecting and the three central bays pedimented. A block door is centrally located, flanked by tall carriage arches with boarded doors and glazed upper panels; further doors flank the arches, each with small-pane fanlights. All doors are boarded. Five square windows, originally for a hayloft, are now glazed with casements and small-pane bands. The pediment above incorporates a Roman numeral clock within the tympanum. Recessed outer bays have blinded round-arched pedestrian doors, the left one retaining a small-pane fanlight. Later crowstepped, single-story additions have been made to the outer left, stepping down and incorporating a garage opening.

The roof is covered in grey slates with lead flashings.

Inside, the stables feature boarded stall divisions and loose boxes complete with railings and cast-iron ball-finialled posts, along with boarded wainscot. Parts of the ground floor and the entire first floor have been converted to serve as a catering school. A basket-arched stone chimneypiece is located in a chamfered angle.

A bell tower and gatepier, also likely by David Bryce around 1845, are situated to the north of the east elevation. The bell tower stands on an opus incertum pedestal with an ashlar shaft and ashlar birdcage, crowned with a pyramidally capped bellcote. An adjacent gatepier, constructed of opus incertum masonry, is topped with a ball finial.

To the west are further rubble, crowstepped farm and stable additions, built in a traditional 17th-century style during the mid-19th century, consisting of single and two-story structures. A quadrangular court has been added to the rear of the stable block, featuring broad segmental-arched carriage and cattle openings. A north-south range is linked to the stable block by a later addition; it features a two-story centrepiece with a cartshed at ground level and single-story cottages to the left. A range running east-west connects to the stable block, and a taller block to the north (now residential) is linked to a cartshed and granary to the south by a stone carriage overthrow. A grieve's cottage, L-plan with additions in the re-entrant angle, also exists.

The windows throughout generally feature four-pane and small-pane glazing patterns in sash and case windows, although some are modern. Roofing materials include grey slate and corrugated asbestos. Gablehead and mutual gable stacks have ovolo coping, and beak skewputts are present. A Glenfield and Kennedy cast-iron water pump remains in working order, and cobbled areas are evident.