Oxenfoord Castle Stables, Cranston Riddel

Early 19th century, the Oxenfoord Castle Stables consist of a U-plan coach house accompanied by an L-plan stable block to the rear. The buildings are constructed of coursed sandstone ashlar and brick, with dressed ashlar long and short quoins, sills, and dormers.

The south elevation, which is the principal facade, features the main coach house with six bays of segmental carriage arches on the ground floor. A two-leaf timber door, featuring a boarded and panelled base and louvred ventilation at the top, is situated within one of the arches. Three regularly placed dormers are present on the upper level, each with inset surrounds, triangular architraved pediments, roll-moulded apexes, and a small sliding window flanking the central dormer. A glazed roof light is positioned on the apex to the right of the centre. Crowstepped gable ends have gablehead stacks to the left and right returns, which adjoin single-bay links to the front arms of the U-plan block. The arms exhibit three regularly placed bays on the ground floor, with matching piended ashlar dormers above. A two-storey, blind bay is centrally located within a crowstepped gable end, featuring beaked putts. The rear of the arms is blind, with a central doorway and an adjacent crowstepped gable with a single bay and gablehead stack forming the side of the coach house link.

The north (rear) elevation presents a single-storey, L-shaped stable block facing west, displaying regular fenestration.

Timber sash and case windows with 12 panes are found in the dormers, while timber boarded doors provide access to the ground floor coach sheds. The main building is roofed with a piended graded slate covering, with zinc ridging and valleys. Dormers have piended grey slate roofs. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods are also in place. The interior was not inspected in 2000.

High rubble boundary walls with curved top copes enclose the site. A pair of squared ashlar gatepiers, distinguished by cushion capitals with a projecting band course and a large stone ball on a supporting bracket, mark the entrance.

Built as the stables for Oxenfoord Castle and situated west-northwest of the castle, these buildings share distinct stylistic elements with other structures within the castle's estate. Similar elements are found in the Home Farm, located across the A68, and the Middle Lodge at the end of the driveway to the stables. These structures are all centered around the general trade entrance to the castle, with the North and South Lodges representing the formal entrances (in Gothic and Elizabethan revival styles respectively). The open-ended courtyard plan bears resemblance to medium to large farm steadings being constructed in the Lothians during this period.