Kinshaldy House And Farmsteading

Kinshaldy House and Farmsteading is a large, integrated farm complex dating primarily from 1878, with some earlier 19th-century masonry incorporated into the farmhouse. The farmstead has a quadrangular plan, with a detached L-shaped block at the southwest angle. The buildings are constructed of whinstone rubble with stugged white sandstone dressings, except for the older section of the farmhouse, where the dressings are droved.

The south range features a two-story, five-bay farmhouse, largely of 1878, with 12-pane sashes matching the earlier section of the farmhouse. An Italianate water tower of red brick with white brick dressings was added around 1885, positioned at the second bay from the left. The tower's ground floor incorporates a porch with a cantilevered pentice hood on its west face, and a further door that creates a symmetrical three-window unit with the tower's section east of the door. A ground floor western window has been altered. To the east is a single-story bothy block, with two bipartite windows flanked by two doors; the interior retains original matchboarded detailing.

The main steading elevation faces east and is symmetrical, with corbelled and finialled gables. A central semi-elliptical pend arch is topped with a large cast-iron weather vane; N and S gables feature pairs of inverted keyhole slits and sculpted circular roundels positioned above. The northern roundel depicts a salmon swimming in reeds, while the southern roundel shows horses and a plough, with the inscription 'SPEED THE' above and ‘1878' beneath. Louvred openings connect the sections.

The north elevation is single-story and L-shaped, with sliding doors set into shallow rectangular recesses. The western threshing mill and barn range is two-stories tall, and a horsemill and engine house, which have unfortunately been demolished, were once on the west face. The threshing mill itself has been removed. The south side of the courtyard has two semi-elliptical cartshed arches. The courtyard is cobbled, and a roofed cattle court, likely of a later date, has been demolished.

An L-shaped building in the southwest corner has a doocot (dovecot) in the loft of the northern arm, with entrances in the north gable. There are three cartshed openings in the north face of the southeast arm. A large, walled garden, dated 1902, adjoins the farm to the south, with gabled gateways in the north and south sections.

Further alterations were undertaken in 1987/8.