Steading, Mains Of Machermore

Mains Of Machermore is a farmhouse and steading built in the later 19th century. The farmhouse is two stories high with three bays and has a lower wing at the rear. It is constructed of rubble, painted on the south and west elevations, with red sandstone ashlar dressings featuring raised margins and bull-faced quoins with margin draft. The ground floor has taller windows.

On the southeast elevation, there is an angled doorcase at the center with a plate glass fanlight above it, and the windows are regularly spaced. The west elevation has a window at both the ground and first floors on the left side. The east elevation mirrors this with windows at both levels on the left and right sides. The north elevation features a single-storey and loft wing attached at the center, with a gablehead stack to the north and modern tiles. There is a door with flanking windows on the west side, a window on the east side, and a door in the gablehead to the north with a timber forestair leading up. A modern outbuilding is attached to the left side of the north elevation.

The farmhouse has plate glass glazing in sash and case windows, shouldered wallhead stacks at the center of the east and west elevations, and a piended roof covered with graded grey slates.

The steading is U-shaped and made of painted rubble with red sandstone coped skews and graded grey slates. It features boarded doors and small-pane glazing, with a variety of openings.

The house and cheese loft are two stories high, with the first floor breaking the eaves. The three-bay house is adjacent to the cheese loft on the south side, constructed of painted rubble and covered with grey slates and red sandstone coped skews. The house has plate glass glazing in sash and case windows, with gablehead stacks on the east and west sides and a ridge stack at the center.

On the north elevation, the house is on the right with a central door and windows in the outer bays, featuring gabled dormerheads at the first floor. A brick lean-to is attached to the right. The cheese loft on the left has two bays, a door on the left, and a rubble lean-to adjoining it on the left side.