South West Range, Kinshaldy House And Farmsteading

Kinshaldy House and Farmsteading is a large, integrated farm complex dating primarily to 1878, incorporating some early 19th-century masonry at the farmhouse. The complex has a quadrangular plan, with a detached L-plan block set at the southwest angle. The buildings are constructed from whinstone rubble with stugged white sandstone dressings, with an older section of the farmhouse exhibiting droved dressings.

The south range features a two-story, five-bay farmhouse, mainly of 1878, with 12-pane sashes matching the earlier farmhouse. An Italianate water tower of red brick with white brick dressings was added around 1885 at the second bay from the left. The tower has segment-headed windows on the ground and first floor. A corbelled triple arch on the ground floor forms a porch with a cantilevered pentice hood on the west face; a further door is located in the fourth bay, so that the eastern section of the tower creates a symmetrical three-window unit. A ground-floor window on the west has been altered. To the east is a single-story bothy block with two bipartite windows flanked by two doors, and matchboarded interiors reflecting the original ranges.

The main elevation of the steading faces east and is symmetrical, with corbelled and finialled apices to the gables. The gable above the central semi-elliptical pend arch has a large cast-iron weather vane. The north and south gables feature pairs of inverted keyhole slits, with sculpted circular roundels above; the northern roundel depicts a salmon swimming in reeds and the southern roundel depicts horses and a plough, with the inscription "SPEED THE" above and "1878" beneath. Louvred openings link the sections.

The north elevation is single-story with an L-plan layout, and features sliding doors set in shallow rectangular recesses. The western threshing mill and barn range is two-story, but the horsemill and engine house on the west face have been demolished, and the threshing mill removed. Two semi-elliptical cartshed arches are located at the south end of this range, on the court side. The cobbled court formerly had a roofed cattle court, which has since been demolished.

The single-story L-plan southwest range incorporates a doocot in the loft of the northern arm, with entrances at the north gable. Three cartshed openings are in the north face of the southeastern arm. A large walled garden, dated 1902, adjoins the complex to the south, with gabled gateways on both the north and south sides.

Further alterations were carried out in 1987/8.