Gate Piers, The Dales, By Inverkeithing

Earlier to mid 19th century. 2-storey, 3-bay T-plan farmhouse with some Tudor detailing; later 19th century 2-storey, 2-bay extension to E forming cruciform-plan; set on sloping site. Squared and snecked stugged sandstone; stone cills; ashlar dressings; droved strip quoins. Lying-pane sash and case windows; hoodmoulds; lancet arrow-slits; shafted and diagonally set chimneystacks.

S (GARDEN FRONT) ELEVATION: central modern timber glazed door; modern patio doors to right (inserted into former window opening); ground floor window to slightly advanced right-hand gabled bay. Small 1st floor window above door; flanking single windows above ground floor openings; blind lancet window in gablehead; ball finial to gable apex. Ground floor window to left return (former E elevation), blind window above. 2-storey extension to E: modern door closely set to re-entrant angle; modern window to right; 1st floor window close to eaves above. Single storey later lean-to shed to far right, timber boarded door.

E ELEVATION: gable end. Ground floor modern window to right. Central 1st floor window. Single storey lean-to rubble shed, small square ground floor window incorporated into boundary wall.

N (ROAD) ELEVATION: sunk ground floor level in moated area. Truncated steps, flying over ground floor moat, to central gabled porch at 1st floor in re-entrant angle with modern door, narrow 4-pane fanlight, blank shield and block skewputts. Barred ground floor window to shallow right return of porch. Advanced gabled bay to left with bipartite window at ground; hoodmoulded 1st floor window above; blind lancet arrow-slit window in gablehead, ball finial to gable apex. Small blind rectangular window to right of porch; 1st floor window close to eaves above. Extension to E: central single ground floor window.

W ELEVATION: gable end. Small blind rectangular ground floor window; blind hoodmoulded 1st floor window above; blind lancet in gablehead.

Timber sash and case lying-pane windows to earlier 19th century phase; timber sash and case plate glass windows with horns to later 19th addition. Pitched roofs; grey slates; raised ashlar-coped skews; block skewputts; corniced shafted and diagonally set gable apex and ridge stacks.

INTERIOR: plain cornicing; timber tongue and groove dado to some rooms.

BOUNDARY WALLS and GATEPIERS: low coped random rubble boundary walls (modern rubble wall to road). Square-plan slender chamfered and droved gatepiers with drop arched caps to N. Large square-plan 18th century vermiculated and droved ashlar gatepiers with vermiculated stepped caps flanking new entrance to converted steading to E.