Caiplie Steading

The Caiplie Farmhouse is an early 19th-century building that was expanded in the mid-19th century to form a T-shaped plan. Originally a two-story, three-bay structure with its front facing west, a large two-story wing was added to the centre of the west front during the mid-19th century. It is harled with ashlar dressings, straight skews – the south-west skew has kneelers – rectangular corniced stacks, and a slated roof. A walled garden adjoins the house to the south, constructed of rubble with a flagged coping.

A mid-19th-century cottage stands to the north of the farmhouse and is linked by a rubble wall with a brick coping. This single-story cottage has rubble construction with ashlar dressings and a pantiled roof with straight skews and coped end-stacks. It has a pantiled outshot to the west.

The steading, dating from the earlier and mid-19th century, consists of three ranges arranged around a courtyard that is closed to the west by the farmhouse. The south and east ranges are single-story with a loft above, featuring gable ends with ashlar dressings, pantiled roofs with catslide and piended sections over the loft doors. A series of three segmental-headed cart sheds are located at the north end of the east range. Behind the east range sits an octagonal horse-mill, also pantiled. The north range is composed of four parallel sheds fronting the courtyard; three have broad-piended pantiled roofs, while the westernmost is narrower and gabled. A long, single-story, pantiled range links these sheds to the rear and extends eastwards.