Pitmenzie Old Farmhouse, Auchtermuchty

Pitmenzie Old Farmhouse is an 18th-century former croft house and attached byre, located near Auchtermuchty. The house features a 1715 marriage lintel, and both sections were significantly recast and re-roofed during the 19th century. The buildings are situated on a sloping site; the byre is to the south and the house sits on rising ground to the north, with the ground further sloping to the west, creating full-height entrance elevations to the west and shortened elevations to the east facing the road. The construction utilizes whin rubble masonry with rubble footings on the west side. Openings have brick reveals and sandstone ashlar lintels, and doors have ashlar quoins with rounded arrises. The wall heights were raised, slightly reducing the original steep pitch of the (slightly swept) roofs, with cement patching visible at the gables. The house roof structure comprises timber A-frame couples, while both roofs are pantiled with slightly overhanging eaves and tiled ridges, most of the ridge tiles on the house roof being lost. There are no chimney stacks.

The house’s west-facing elevation presents a symmetrical three-bay facade with a central entrance featuring a stop-chamfered lintel inscribed "17-HK-heart0MW-15". The entrance door is vertically-boarded and has cast-iron hinges. Small square window openings are positioned on either side of the door, with lintels aligned with the door lintel's height. The walls were raised above the lintels, and a loft opening breaks through the eaves off-centre to the left, featuring timber cills, reveals, and a catslide, pantiled roof that sweeps back into the main roof. The east-facing elevation is largely blind, except for a small ventilation opening with half-brick reveals.

Inside the house, a former fireplace is located at the north gable, and a small, rectangular recess, likely used for storing salt, is positioned to the left.

The byre is linked to the house and is at a lower ground level to the south. It has a single door opening at the centre of its west elevation, and a smaller single opening on the east elevation (which was bricked up during the 19th century).

This farmhouse represents an increasingly rare example of an unaltered traditional farm building, once common in the area. A nearby farmhouse, "The Clink," was of a similar type with a dated lintel (1733), but is now modernised with cement render, concrete lintels, and new pantiles. Pitmenzie Old Farmhouse was previously used for agricultural purposes (with the house containing stalls and the byre having a concrete drainage channel across the floor) and has recently received planning permission for a change of use to a dwelling house, granted in 1992. An adjacent farmhouse to the south is later, dating to the early 19th century and is now modernised.