Humbie Steading

Circa 1827 with some alterations in 1888 and recent additions at rear. Single storey quadrangular-plan steading with cottage accommodation. Free-standing barn to W. Squared rubble with stugged ashlar margins and quoins.

S RANGE: opening into courtyard at centre. Range comprised of single storey, 3-bay cottage terminated at W end by 2-bay, gable end of 2-storey granary and cartshed and linked by blocked segmental cart-arch with window. Boarded door at ground floor right to granary. 6-pane sash and case window at outer left. Boarded hoist door at 1st floor right and and window to left with 4-pane upper glazed portion, boarded below. Oculus in gablehead. Cottage with boarded door at centre; flanking windows enlarged to bipartite (12-pane sash and case), lintels and raised cills, window to right larger. Gatepier built into E corner of cottage framing entrance to stable courtyard. Range to right single storey with taller 2-bay range flanking entrance; narrow door to left, large 2-leaf machinery doors to right. Lower 6-bay bothy and cottage, serving as stores; 3 narrow rendered bays to centre, bays to right random rubble.

E RANGE: single storey range. Boarded door at S end. 3 large 2-leaf sliding doors irregularly disposed in centre bays. Stock house at N end. 6 small, boarded and hinged feeding doors set in margins of large stugged blocks. Modern warehousing further to N, free-standing.

W RANGE: asymmetrical side elevation of 2-storey granary and cartshed, largely blank at ground. Door to end left. Boarded door to left of centre with grain chute above. Blocked cart-arch at end bay S with louvred opening set within; brick voussoirs. Similar louvred opening in centre 3 bays immediately below eaves level. Hoist opening at end bay N. Rebuilt block abuting onto N end. Courtyard elevations:

W ELEVATION: E elevation of granary and former cartshed. Large 2-leaf sliding door at centre. Cart-arches blocked, 3 to left (1 with door) 1 to right, of louvred windows of varying sizes. Louvred granary windows at 1st floor. Modern ridge fan ventilator.

E ELEVATION: 3-bay. Boarded doors on sliding mechanism at outer bays. Original door at centre now blocked as window. Rooflights, ridge ventilators.

S ELEVATION: 3 stables with boarded half doors. Some brick infill. Galvanised piend roof at E side.

Mounting steps against S access wall opposite the stables.

Slate roof; ashlar coping to skews. Squared and corniced stacks for cottage.

IMPLEMENT SHED: freestanding to W of main steading. Rubble with ashlar dressings. Large cart-arch with 2-leaf boarded door at outer left. Arcaded central area with cast-iron columns, closed to outer right by boarded 2-leaf door and brick wall; low, half-piend roofed brick addition on S return. Grey slates.