Upper Dounreay Farm Steading

Circa 1840-50. Large open square steading range; rubble with tooled rubble dressings. Main NW symmetrical 2-storey, 5 arcaded bay front with centre gabled bay with hoist loft entrance and outer single storey wings. Long 2-storey barn projects from rear of main front, dividing inner court in two and linked to back enclosing ranged of threshing mill and flanking stables and byres. Entrances to rear courts right and left of main front block, which has basket arched centre entrance and similar flanking cart bays (blocked at extreme left) all masked by modern sliding doors. Lean-to wheel house to rear against NE elevation of threshing barn, served by (blocked) lade. Graded Caithness roofs of varying heights.