Steading, Bankhead Of Raith, Raith Estate

This is a late 18th to early 19th century farmhouse situated within the Raith Estate. The main farmhouse is a rectangular, two-storey, three-bay building with a projecting classical porch and a single-storey wing to the northwest. The walls are largely harled rubble with raised margins, and incorporate a stone mullion window.

The southeast elevation, the principal facade, rises in steps to a deep-set panelled timber door surmounted by a three-part fanlight, all within a pilastered and corniced porch at the centre. Windows are located in the flanking bays, with regular fenestration to the first floor. A small traditional rooflight sits over the right bay.

The northwest elevation features a ground floor window in the bay to the left, and a projecting wing in the centre bay with a small window. A brick stack and two small windows are on the return to the left, while the return to the right has asymmetrical fenestration and a projecting porch. The first floor features a small bipartite window to the centre, with windows in the flanking bays. The northeast elevation has a single window at first floor level, and the southwest elevation has a window at both ground and first floor levels.

The windows are timber sash and case with 4 and 12 pane glazing patterns. The roof is covered in graded grey slates, and features coped ashlar stacks with polygonal cans and thackstanes, as well as ashlar-coped skews. The interior, not inspected in 1997, is reported to contain panelled shutters.

A coped rubble-walled garden is located to the southeast, with a pedestrian gateway to the northwest.

A rectangular-plan steading surrounds a courtyard. To the northwest is a pantiled cottage and workshop range. To the southeast is a five-bay cartshed range. The courtyard elevations display a variety of openings, including boarded timber doors and timber windows. Low brick stacks are present. A shelter shed with five segmental-headed cart arches is located on the northwest elevation; the outer left arch has a corresponding arch to the rear. There are five hayloft/granary openings, some with two-leaf boarded timber doors, under a corrugated asbestos roof with a central rooflight. The interior of this section possesses rustic roof-support poles. A lower pantiled cattle court is located to outer left, with feeding hatches to the rear and remnants of a timber byre. On the southwest elevation, a tall piend-roofed range has a timber ridge ventilator, ribbon rooflights, and pantiles with a slate eaves easing course. The northeast elevation contains a piended pantiled range to the right, and a gabled, roofless range to the left, with a door to the left, a segmental-headed opening high up to the centre, and a wide opening to the right.