Auchencairn

Late 18th century farmhouse extended probably mid-19th

century; steading to rear mostly circa 1830. FARMHOUSE: 2

storeys; original part: (possibly raised a storey) 4-west

facing bays arranged as 3 + 1 bays with door central to 3

east bays behind circa 1900 timber porch; random rubble with

squared dressings; 4th bay (nearest steading) has rectangular

panel beside upper window; sash windows with 12-pane glazing;

end stacks. Addition (after style of William Burn): Neo-

Tudor, with hoodmoulded mullioned windows; squared rubble

with ashlar dressings; 3-bay south elevation with advanced

gable right, porch in re-entrant angle. Stop-chamfered

openings; saw-toothed skews; finialed gables. Slate roofs.

STEADING: mostly whitewashed rubble and ashlar dressings.

Ranges irregularly-placed about cobbled open court (latter

entered from west): south (barn) and adjoining east (? byre)

ranges linked to house, with lean-to porch in re-entrant

angle; barn has cartway to courtyard and loft door and window

with gabled dormer heads; 2 decorative axial roof vents on

wing to west. North range with corrugated asbestos roof (all

other roofs slated); 2 piended ranges adjoining latter

project into courtyard, including (?)pigsty with half-slated

roof: cartshed adjoins at west, beside driveway.