Walled Garden, Kinshaldy House And Farmsteading

The Walled Garden, Kinshaldy House and Farmsteading is an 1878 farm complex with some early 19th-century masonry incorporated into the farmhouse. The farmsteading is laid out on a quadrangular plan, with a detached L-shaped block at the southwest angle. The buildings are mainly constructed from whinstone rubble with stugged white sandstone dressings, except for the older part of the farmhouse where the dressings are droved.

The south range features a two-storey, five-bay farmhouse, predominantly from 1878, with 12-pane sashes matching those on the earlier farmhouse section. A three-stage Italianate water tower of red brick with white brick dressings was added around 1885. It has segment-headed windows on the ground and first floors, and corbelled triple arches on the ground floor. The western face includes a porch with a cantilevered pentice hood, and a further door at the fourth bay, so that the eastern section of the tower forms a symmetrical three-window unit. A window on the western ground floor has been altered. Adjoining the farmhouse to the east is a single-storey bothy block with two bipartite windows flanked by two doors; the interiors retain matchboard panelling and original features.

The main elevation of the steading faces east, and is symmetrical with corbelled and finialled gables. Above the central, semi-elliptical pend arch, which has a large cast-iron weather vane, and on the north and south gables are pairs of inverted keyhole slits topped with sculpted circular roundels. The northern roundel depicts a salmon swimming in reeds, while the southern roundel shows horses and a plough, with the inscription 'SPEED THE' above and the date '1878' beneath. The structure links sections with three-bay louvred openings.

The north elevation is single-storey and L-shaped, with sliding doors recessed in shallow rectangular openings. The western threshing mill and barn range is two-storeys high, and included a horsemill and engine house on its west face, which have since been demolished. The threshing mill itself has also been removed. There are two semi-elliptical cartshed arches at the south end, facing the courtyard.

The courtyard is cobbled, and a roofed cattle court, likely of a similar date, has been demolished. A single-storey, L-shaped range at the southwest corner incorporates a doocot in the loft of the northern arm, with entrances in the north gable. The southeastern arm of this range has three cartshed openings.

A large, walled garden, dated 1902, adjoins the complex to the south, with gabled gateways at the north and south edges. Further alterations were undertaken in 1987/8.