Humbie Farmhouse

Humbie Farmhouse is an early to earlier 19th century house, with additions from the later 19th century. It is a 3-bay, 2-storey building with a single-storey service wing to the west and a lower, 2-storey block to the east. The house is rectangular in plan and constructed of squared and snecked sandstone, with raised quoins and ashlar margins around doors and windows. An eaves band and cornice run along the top of the walls.

The south elevation, which is the main facade, features a corniced and pilastered door at centre, flanked by cast-ironwork railings on a stepped entrance. The door itself is 4-panelled, with an Edinburgh handle and a radiating pattern fanlight above. A corniced window is positioned to the left, while a full-height canted bay extends to the right. First-floor windows are located in the centre and outer-left bays, with canted, piend, and slate-hung dormers above the end bays. A single-storey service wing, with a half-piend roof, is built against the northwest corner of the main house, featuring two windows facing south. A lower, recessed wing is situated to the east, with three ground-floor windows and two first-floor windows, topped with gabled dormerheads which have ashlar coping and ball finials.

The north elevation, the rear of the house, emphasises the main block and includes a stairbay in the centre. This stairbay has two windows; the upper window breaks the eaves to form a gabled dormerhead, adorned with a finial and a large, fixed, round-arched window with dressed voussoirs and a recessed square plaque above. A narrow door with a glazed upper portion is found on the ground floor to the outer right, with a small window to its left. A window is located in the outer-left bay at ground level, and windows are present in both outer bays at first floor level. A cast-iron fire bell is fixed to the wall immediately to the left of the first-floor outer-right window. The outer right side is clasped by a lean-to roof of the service wing, with a door on its east return and a door in the centre of the east wing, itself featuring a boarded door with a 2-pane letterbox fanlight above, and a window to the right and a narrower window to the left. Gabled dormerheads are present above the first-floor windows.

The west elevation displays the gable end of the house, with regular windows at ground and first floor of the outer bay to the right. A single-storey wing is attached to the left side. A small, square window is placed off-centre on the west gable of the main house, above the service wing. The east elevation is blank.

The windows are plate glass sash and case, and the canted dormers are on the main block. The roof is grey slate, with ashlar coping to the skews and broad corniced end stacks with circular cans.

The interior was not inspected in 1992.

A simple rubble-walled garden is located to the rear, northwest of the house. Stone with the initials G.B – S.I.P. 1726 is set into the rear wall.