Humbie Steading

The Humbie Steading dates to circa 1827, with alterations in 1888 and more recent additions at the rear. It is a single-storey, quadrangular-plan steading incorporating cottage accommodation, with a free-standing barn to the west. The steading is constructed of squared rubble with stugged ashlar margins and quoins.

The south range features an opening into the central courtyard. It incorporates a single-storey, three-bay cottage, terminating at the west end with a two-bay, gable-fronted, two-storey granary and cartshed, linked by a blocked segmental cart-arch with a window above. A boarded door is located at ground floor level on the right side of the granary; a six-pane sash and case window is on the outer left. A boarded hoist door and a window with a four-pane upper glazed portion and boarded lower section are positioned at first floor level to the right. An oculus is in the gablehead. The cottage features a boarded door at the centre, with flanking windows that have been enlarged to bipartite (12-pane sash and case) configurations, featuring lintels and raised cills. A gatepier is built into the east corner of the cottage, framing the entrance to a stable courtyard. To the right, a single-storey range with a taller two-bay section flanking the entrance incorporates a narrow door to the left and large two-leaf machinery doors to the right. A lower, six-bay bothy and cottage, used as stores, is located further along, with three narrow, rendered bays in the centre and random rubble bays to the right.

The east range is a single-storey structure with a boarded door at the south end. Three large two-leaf sliding doors are irregularly disposed in the central bays, and a stock house is at the north end. Six small, boarded and hinged feeding doors are set into the margins of large stugged blocks. Modern warehousing extends further north, free-standing.

The west range presents an asymmetrical side elevation of the two-storey granary and cartshed, largely blank at ground level. A door is located at the end on the left, and a boarded door with a grain chute above is positioned to the left of centre. A blocked cart-arch is at the end bay to the south, with a louvred opening set within brick voussoirs. A similar louvred opening is located in the centre three bays, immediately below eaves level. A hoist opening is at the end bay to the north, which now abuts a rebuilt block.

The courtyard elevations show that the west elevation of the granary and former cartshed features a large two-leaf sliding door at the centre. Blocked cart-arches are present to the left (one with a door) and to the right; these are filled with louvred windows of varying sizes. Louvred granary windows are positioned at first floor level. A modern ridge fan ventilator is also present. The east elevation is three-bay in width and features boarded doors on sliding mechanisms at the outer bays. The original door at the centre is now blocked as a window. Rooflights and ridge ventilators are present. The south elevation displays three stables with boarded half-doors and some brick infill, with a galvanised piend roof at the east side. Mounting steps are located against the south access wall, opposite the stables.

The steading has a slate roof with ashlar coping to the skews. Squared and corniced stacks serve the cottage.

A freestanding implement shed stands to the west of the main steading, constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings. It features a large cart-arch with a two-leaf boarded door on the outer left. An arcaded central area has cast-iron columns; it is closed to the outer right by a two-leaf boarded door and a brick wall, with a low, half-piend roofed brick addition on the south return. The roof is covered in grey slates.