Alton Farmhouse And Steading, Durisdeer

Walter Newall achitect. Circa 1830 single storey and attic

3-bay farmhouse at south end of courtyard steading, latter

built 1830/1. All rubble-built with ashlar dressings;

whitewashed. House: gabled central porch with saw-toothed

skews and barge-boarded canted dormers added in mid 19th

century to south elevation; sash windows (12-pane glazing at

ground); straight skews; corniced end stacks. Modern rear

wing to courtyard.

Steading: (entered from south west and from north east

corners) recessed asymmetrical ranges flank house; tall west

range has carshed with barn above (loft door and glazed and

boarded square loft openings to bays); piended roof swept

over full width lean-to at south; north range behind modern

full length addition to courtyard; east range now a tractor

shed with slapping in short north wall.

All roofed with graded slates; steading roofs mostly piended,

with axial ventilators.