Caiplie Steading

The Caiplie Farmhouse is an early 19th-century building that was enlarged in the mid-19th century to create a T-shaped plan. Originally two storeys and three bays facing west, a large, two-storey wing was added to the west front in the mid-19th century. Bipartite windows are visible in the west gable. The farmhouse is harled with ashlar dressings, straight skews—the southwest skew features kneelers—rectangular corniced stacks, and a slated roof. A walled garden adjoins the house to the south; it is constructed of rubble with a flagged coping.

A mid-19th-century cottage stands north of the farmhouse and is connected by a rubble wall with a brick coping. This one-storey building features rubble construction with ashlar dressings, a pantiled roof, straight skews with coped end stacks, and a pantiled outshot to the west.

The steading, dating from the earlier and mid-19th centuries, consists of three ranges surrounding a courtyard, which is closed to the west by the farmhouse. The south and east ranges are single-storey with a loft above. They have gable ends with ashlar dressings and pantiled roofs incorporating catslide and piended sections over the loft doors. Three segmental-headed cart sheds are located at the north end of the east range. An octagonal pantiled horse mill is situated behind the east range. The north range comprises four parallel sheds facing the courtyard, three of which have broad-piended pantiled roofs; the westernmost is narrower and gabled. A long, single-storey pantiled range connects to the rear of these sheds and extends eastwards.