Steading, Glassmount House

Steading at Glassmount House is an early 19th-century small U-plan courtyard steading. It is constructed of rubble with dressed ashlar margins and quoin strips, featuring segmental cart arches and chamfered arrises.

The north range has a south elevation with cart arches that include two-leaf boarded timber doors in the center and left bays, and a timber door with a plate glass fanlight in the right bay. The west range has an east elevation featuring a cart arch in the outer right bay, a sliding two-leaf boarded timber door in an altered opening to the right of center, and a window on the outer left with a 9-pane glazing pattern above a timber louver. The south range has a north elevation with a cart arch in the left of center bay and a similar window to the right.

Inside, there are some good original features, including a timber-lined tackroom with ironwork saddle racks and loose boxes with timber dadoes. The roof is covered with grey slates and has coped ashlar stacks, along with decorative cast-iron brattishing (snow catchers) at the angles of the inner courtyard roof.

The boundary wall is made of flat-coped rubble, enclosing the courtyard to the east, and includes square-section ashlar gatepiers with cushion capitals at the northeast corner.