Farmhouse, Muirhouse

Farmhouse with additions in style of Walter Newall dated

1840; (altered) courtyard steading to N perhaps also part

built 1840. All rubble built with ashlar dressings; house is

painted, with contrasting ashlar margins and projecting

cills; steading whitewashed. All roofed with graded slates.

HOUSE: seems originally to have been L-plan, but maybe only

slightly pre-dating 1840; essentially S-facing and

asymmetrical; 3 bays (ie of original house) with pedimented

central door and advanced and gabled left bay; altered right

bay; 2 near full-height (1840) rear wings to courtyard with

back door recessed between.

Single windows, sashes, all originally small-paned, blind

windows in E gable and N gable of (lesser) eastmost rear wing

with astragals cut in ashlar; 4-pane glazing at S (excluding

altered canted window), rear wings with 9-pane glazing at 1st

floor. Shaped skews and skewputts; end and axial stacks with

paired octagonal flues.

STEADING: 3 adjoining ranges arranged in U-plan, courtyard

entered either side by detached S range. 2-storey W range

(barn) with cartshed (3+1 bays) 3-bay stable, loft with door

and small openings in regular bays; S gable rebuilt in brick.

N range 2 storeys at W end, remainder with courtyard wall

demolished and with modern corrugated roof; low byre at E

(?heightened) with shouldered doorways and series of

rooflights.