Steading, Carlowrie

This is a single-storey and loft farm steading built in 1858 by Robert Bell. It is constructed from squared and snecked rubble with droved ashlar dressings. The building has blind arrowslits in the principal gables, projecting cills, and pal stones to the courtyard openings. Long and short quoins are also present.

The east (principal) elevation is symmetrical. A central three-bay block is raised and features a timber door within a stone doorpiece, advanced slightly. A blind arrowslit is located in a gabletted stone dormerhead that breaks the eaves. This is flanked by mirrored two-bay wings with single and bipartite windows to the outer bays. Further single-storey two-bay blocks are attached to the flanks, with a vertically-boarded timber sliding door in the gable of the block to the outer left, and a timber door with a segmental-arched doorway and doors in the block to the outer right.

The north elevation runs parallel to the road and is partially concealed at ground level. The west elevation has been altered with modern additions. A doorway to the north courtyard is located at the northwest re-entrant angle, with steps leading up to a hayloft door. A vertically-boarded timber granary door is set within a gabletted dormer that breaks the eaves, with a brick-infilled window to the right. A winter cattle shed is to the outer left, while a projecting bay to the right features a vertically-boarded timber sliding door at ground level and a single window above.

The south elevation is largely blank, with an arrowslit window in an advanced gable to the left and a vertically-boarded timber sliding door centred in a block to the right.

The north courtyard is square and contains an asymmetrical seven-bay cartshed along the west wall. This has six segmental-arched cart-arches with brick-infilled loft granary windows above and a segmental-arched pedestrian arch with a blank space above. The courtyard elevations of the ranges incorporate a variety of openings, including large vertically-boarded timber sliding doors.

The south courtyard has been altered and now comprises a modern cattle shed with a corrugated-sheet roof. Feeding windows have been infilled.

The steading has timber sash and case windows, graded grey and purple slates, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Square ashlar ridge and gablehead stacks are topped with circular cans. Coped skews and bracketted skewputts are found at the principal gables and doorpiece.