Steading, Little Duchrae

Early 19th century. Single-storey cottage, birthplace of S R

Crockett, local historian and writer. Raised in brick to

2-storeys with pair of gabled dormers later 20th-century.

Modern harled frontage, rubble to ground floor, brick to 1st

floor.

Central gabled painted brick porch flanked by sash windows

with 4-pane glazing pattern slate roof, end skews, end coped

stacks. Rear elevation with modern plate glass windows, flat bituminous-felt roofed dormers. Single-storey lean-to rubble

offshoot to right. Adjoining single-storey rubble-built byre

range. Blocked cart arch to extreme right, 2 doors, 2

windows, one slit ventilator. Slate roofs, end skews.

Further detached single-storey range at right angles to S.

former mill building to left side is taller than byre with

single cart-arch and door. Foundations of horsemill visible

to S of mill.

Slate roofs, end skews, sandstone ridge.