Stables With Archway And Sundial, Cumloden

The building is a set of stables with an archway and a sundial, dated 1828, located at Cumloden. It features a quadrangular courtyard design and is a single-storey structure. The walls are made of rubble, painted on the west elevation, with granite quoins and rybats, along with some red sandstone dressings. The roofs are piended.

On the south elevation, there is an entrance archway at the center, which connects to the piended outer bays through a slightly recessed flat-coped screen wall. The archway has a polished granite depressed arch, topped with a sundial and flanked by squat granite pyramids. There is a small raised sandstone plaque on the keystone, dated "1823". The sundial is a vertical attached piece made of sandstone, featuring a square block with a cavetto cornice, a swept pyramidal roof, and an iron spike. The dial-stone faces south and has concavely curved top angles with two rosettes at the lower angles. The carved octagonal dial is inscribed "Began 1790 Finished 1799" and has an open iron gnomon. A window with a granite margin is located at the center of the outer bays, with a louvred section to the right.

The east range is largely blank, with two slate-hung piended dormers on a slightly lower section to the north. It has a pend leading to the courtyard, with a door to the left and a louvred window to the right. The flat-coped wall divides the courtyard elevation, featuring two basket-arched carriage arches and a machinery door to the right, along with three doors and a pend entrance to the left.

On the north elevation, there is a roofless former carriage shed attached to the right. It includes a door to the left, a blocked door, and a window in the center. There are three stable doors, two additional doors, and a window facing the courtyard.

The west elevation has an entrance to the courtyard at the center, positioned between a slightly lower range to the north and a piended block to the south. The north range features a window to the left, while the south has a gabled design. The house facing the courtyard has boarded windows flanking a gabled porch and two gabled dormer windows, with a door to the right.

In the south range, there is a window to the right of the center and a machinery door to the right, along with a window at the center and two small windows above facing the courtyard. A modern flat-roofed porch is located to the left in the re-entrant angle with the screen wall, and there is a flat-roofed dormer window to the left.

The building features 12-pane glazing in sash and case windows, with ridge stacks on the east, north, and three on the west. The ridges are made of sandstone, and the roofs are covered with graded grey slates. The courtyard is paved with cobbles.