Burn Farm

Burn Farm is a farmhouse designed by William Burn, completed in 1834, with the steading likely built by Walter Newall around the same time, circa 1830. The farmhouse is two storeys high and features baronial elements such as crow-stepped gables and a corbelled angle turret. A low bay links a single storey and attic service wing to the north. The building is constructed from snecked stugged and squared pink rubble with ashlar dressings. The south elevation has twin gables and two bays, while the east and west elevations each feature a gabled northernmost bay and a projecting chimney breast. The west gable is advanced with a square entrance bay that projects from the re-entrant angle, which has a modern glazed porch adjoining it. Above this entrance bay is a tall circular turret topped with a leaded paraboloid roof. The linking bay has a projecting west-facing bipartite window, and there are corniced end and wall head stacks.

The steading consists of four ranges built around a quadrangular courtyard on a sloping site, made from whin rubble with contrasting pink ashlar dressings. The east and west ranges are single storey, with the west range being double-pile and featuring twin north gables near the courtyard entrance. There is a byre within the courtyard and a cartshed on the west elevation at the lower basement level of the slope. The tall north range serves as a barn, which also includes a cartshed, lofts, a basement, and slit vents at the west end. The east range has blocked cart arches. The main entrance to the courtyard is centrally located on the south elevation, with a tall barn to the west. A central midden is partly brick-walled and has a roof supported by cast-iron columns, along with roof ventilators. All roofs are covered with graded slates.