Gate Piers, The Dales, By Inverkeithing

This is an earlier to mid-19th century T-plan farmhouse, with a later 19th century extension creating a cruciform plan. It is situated on a sloping site and features Tudor detailing. The farmhouse is constructed of squared and snecked stugged sandstone with stone cills and ashlar dressings, highlighted by droved strip quoins. The windows are mostly lying-pane sash and case, with hoodmoulds, lancet arrow-slits, and substantial shafted and diagonally set chimneystacks.

The south elevation, which faces the garden, features a modern timber glazed door in the centre, with modern patio doors inserted into a former window opening on the right. A small window is positioned above the door, flanked by single windows. A blind lancet window adorns the gablehead, topped with a ball finial. A ground floor window is present on the left return (formerly the east elevation), with a blind window above. The eastern extension, a two-storey addition, includes a modern door close to the re-entrant angle and a modern window to its right, with a 1st floor window near the eaves. A single-storey, later lean-to shed, with a timber boarded door, is located to the far right.

The east elevation is a gable end with a modern window on the ground floor and a central first-floor window. A small lean-to rubble shed is attached, incorporating a small square ground floor window into the boundary wall. The north elevation, facing the road, has a lower ground floor level situated within a moated area. Truncated steps lead to a first-floor central gabled porch in the re-entrant angle, featuring a modern door, a narrow four-pane fanlight, a blank shield, and block skewputts. A barred ground floor window is positioned on the shallow right return of the porch. An advanced gabled bay to the left features a bipartite ground floor window, with a hoodmoulded first-floor window above, and a blind lancet arrow-slit in the gablehead, culminating in a ball finial. A small blind rectangular window sits to the right of the porch, with a first-floor window near the eaves above. The eastern extension has a central single ground floor window.

The west elevation is a gable end, featuring a small blind rectangular ground floor window, a blind hoodmoulded first-floor window above, and a blind lancet in the gablehead.

The earlier 19th century phase features timber lying-pane sash and case windows, while the later 19th century addition has timber sash and case plate glass windows with horns. The pitched roofs are covered in grey slates, with raised ashlar-coped skews, block skewputts, and corniced shafted and diagonally set gable apex and ridge stacks.

Internally, the farmhouse has plain cornicing and timber tongue and groove dado panelling in some rooms.

Low, coped, random rubble boundary walls enclose the property, with a more modern rubble wall bordering the road. Square-plan, slender, chamfered and droved gatepiers with drop arched caps mark the entrance from the north. Large, square-plan, 18th century gatepiers constructed of vermiculated and droved ashlar, with vermiculated stepped caps, flank the new entrance to a converted steading to the east.