Alton Farmhouse And Steading, Durisdeer

Alton Farmhouse and Steading, designed by architect Walter Newall, dates from around 1830 and consists of a single storey with an attic. It is located at the south end of a courtyard steading, which was built in 1830 and 1831. The farmhouse is constructed from rubble with ashlar dressings and is whitewashed. It features a gabled central porch with saw-toothed skews and barge-boarded canted dormers that were added to the south elevation in the mid-19th century. The house has sash windows with 12-pane glazing on the ground floor, straight skews, and corniced end stacks. There is a modern rear wing that opens to the courtyard.

The steading, which can be accessed from the southwest and northeast corners, consists of recessed asymmetrical ranges that flank the house. The tall west range includes a carshed with a barn above, featuring a loft door and glazed and boarded square loft openings. Its piended roof extends over a full-width lean-to at the south. The north range has a modern full-length addition to the courtyard, while the east range has been converted into a tractor shed, with a slapping in the short north wall.

All roofs are covered with graded slates, with most of the steading roofs being piended and equipped with axial ventilators.