Farmhouse, North Piteadie

This is a two-storey, four-bay farmhouse, dated 1685, with later additions around 1800 and again in 1869. It is accompanied by single-storey pavilions and a rear courtyard. The main house is harled, with rusticated and droved quoins and dressed margins, featuring base and eaves courses. A corniced doorway, pedimented windowheads, stone transoms and mullions, and chamfered arrises are also present.

The south (principal) elevation features a doorway in the outer-left bay, which has an elaborate carved pediment, re-cut scrollwork, and a datestone reading 1685 above a two-leaf panelled timber door. To the right of the doorway are three regularly placed windows, while the first floor has three off-set windows, each breaking through the eaves into a pedimented dormerhead. Flanking the main house are single-storey wings, each with a wide-centred tripartite window.

The west elevation is lower and crowstepped, with a finialled lean-to bay projecting to the left of the pavilion gable, further windows on the return to the right, and a smaller window high up to the outer right of the recessed two-storey block.

The east (courtyard) elevation has its pavilion gable obscured by a link wall, with a small window at first floor level on the recessed gable, bearing inset stone inscribed ‘WD 1869’ on the gablehead stack.

The north (rear) elevation is varied, including a triple-gable with a four-light transomed window and a canted oriel, both at first floor level. A high garden wall abuts to the left of centre, with lower bays defining each re-entrant angle.

The windows are timber sash and case windows with 4, 6, 10, and 12 panes. The roof is covered with grey slates with larger slate/stone eaves easing courses to the pavilions. Coped ashlar stacks with cans, ashlar-coped skewes, and moulded skewputts are also present. The interior was not inspected in 1999.

A low, gabled dovecot is situated in an outlying wing alongside the link wall to the east and the courtyard wall to the north. It is constructed of harled rubble with stone quoin strips. The south-facing elevation is stone-finialled, with a small window at ground level and a round-arched dovecot opening above, featuring a brick margin, a stone alighting ledge, and two flight-holes flanked by three tiers of further flight holes in a timber surround.

The walled garden to the west is constructed of flat-coped rubble, with a row of slated, rubble lean-to ancillary buildings along the north elevation. Gatepiers are made of corniced, pyramidally-coped, rusticated ashlar, and are accompanied by rubble boundary walls. Although the 1685 datestone was originally thought to be contemporaneous with the building's construction, it was likely added during the 1869 reconstruction.