Dalveen

Large 2-storey farmhouse built 1836 in style of William Burn,

courtyard steading to rear (north), tall free-standing barn

beyond. Minor alterations 1860 and later.

Farmhouse: coursed stugged ashlar with crow-stepped gables

and wall-head dormers. and 2 parallel, lower asymmetrical rear

wings around cobbled court; south elevation: 3 bays; advanced

wide gable left with porch projecting from re-entrant angle;

margined wide doorway with moulded reveals; small window

above; ground floor bipartites in outer bays (inserted) and

in recessed lower bay at left (armorial panel incorporated in

west gable of latter). Small-paned sash windows. Wall-head,

end and axial stacks, mostly paired corniced flues. Roofed

with graded slates.

Steading: 3 single storey ranges (taller north range has

loft) in U-plan, detached range at south with courtyard

entrance either side. Stugged, squared and snecked rubble

with ashlar dressings. North range has 2 cartways, series of

loft openings to either long wall, iron forestair to east

gable; east range (? byre) has slit ventilators and roof

lights; courtyard is cobbled, central midden enclosed by low

walls, with kennels at west end. Barn with (masonry) piers at

each corner and buttress central on each long wall -

intermediate cast-iron columns; boarded below eaves in gable

heads.

Roofed mostly with graded slates.