Burn Farm

Farmhouse by William Burn, completed 1834. steading probably

by Walter Newall, presumably near contemporary (? circa

1830). Farmhouse: 2 storeys; baronial features having

crow-stepped gables and corbelled angle turret; low bay links

single storey and attic service wing to north. Built of

snecked stugged and squared pink rubble with ashlar

dressings. Twin-gabled 2-bay south elevation; east and west

elevations each have gabled north most bay and projecting

chimney breast; west gable advanced with square entrance bay

projecting from re-entrant angle (modern glazed porch

adjoins) corbelled above in to tall circular turret with

leaded paraboloid roof; projecting west-facing bipartite in

linking bay. Corniced end and wall head stacks. Steading: 4

ranges built on sloping site around quadrangular courtyard.

Whin rubble with contrasting pink ashlar dressings. East and

west ranges single storey, latter is double-pile with twin

north gables (beside courtyard entrance), byre to court and

cartshed to west elevation at lower (ie basement) level of

slope; tall north range a barn (also with cartshed) with

lofts, basement and slit vents at west end; blocked cart

arches on east range; court main entrance central on south

elevation with tall barn at west. Central midden partly

brick-walled, and with roof supported on cast-iron columns.

Roof ventilators. All roofed with graded slates.