Steading, Teasses House

The Steading at Teasses House, likely designed by William Burn in 1825, underwent alterations by Gillespie & Scott around 1933-1934. Originally, it featured an L-plan range at the southwest, with a detached cottage at the northwest angle. By approximately 1934, it expanded to a full courtyard plan, which remained largely intact as of 1991.

The building is constructed of cream sandstone rubble with stugged dressings, and droved coursed rubble with ashlar dressings on the principal southern elevation. It has a slated roof with leaded ridge ventilators, which have since been truncated.

The symmetrical southeastern elevation consists of a 3-bay range at the center, flanked by slightly advanced gables. These gables have coped skews with consoled skewputts similar to those found at the lodge. Each gable features large pointed-segmental arched cart arches, which are blocked and have tripartite windows, presumably added during the 1930s remodelling. The left-hand gable includes a simple triangular-headed loft opening with timber-louvered shuttering. The center has three windows with 6-paned hoppers, which are boarded below. The L-plan cottage range at the northeast has a largely 1930s appearance, with a 3-bay eastern elevation that includes a pair of end stacks and a third stack off-centre over the partition wall on the left, with a door located at the center.