Meadowhead Farmhouse And Steading, Liberton Drive, Edinburgh

Meadowhead Farmhouse and Steading, located on Liberton Drive in Edinburgh, was built between 1854 and 1855 by David Bryce Junior. The steading is arranged around a courtyard with a symmetrical eastern front and is primarily a single building phase constructed from squared and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Most loft openings feature horizontally-proportioned circular gable openings. The steading includes one and two-storey ranges that step down to follow the slope of the land. The courtyard is accessed at the southeast corner, with the ranges extending into the courtyard from the northern range. There is a symmetrical arcaded cartshed in the western range, and a low range with a pantile roof detached at the northern end, along with another at the southern end, both of which predate Bryce's work.

The farmhouse, while appearing to be late 18th century, consists of more than one building phase. It has a T-plan and is two-storeys tall, with a long southern front that likely received its four-bay design in the first half of the 19th century, although the existing openings are later additions. The eastern ground level may incorporate early work from the 17th century, including a blocked low opening in the gable. There is an integral low bay at the western gable, and the rear (northern side) has been deepened to contain the main entrance, along with a 19th century piended low wing, possibly also designed by Bryce, which includes a basement. The farmhouse is built from rubble with ashlar dressings, featuring a main roof with end and off-centre axial stacks, and mostly small-paned sash and case windows beneath slate roofs. A walled garden is located to the west of the farmhouse.