Oxenfoord Castle Coach Houses, Cranston Riddel

Early 19th century, these coach houses form a U-plan arrangement with 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. Each bay contains a two-leaf timber door with a boarded and panelled base and a louvred top for ventilation. Three regularly spaced dormers are present on the upper storey, each with inset surrounds featuring a triangular architraved pediment and a roll-moulded apex. A small sliding window irregularly flanks the central dormer, and a glazed roof light sits on the apex to the right of the centre. Crowstepped gable ends are present, with gablehead stacks positioned to the left and right, adjoining a single-bay link connecting to the front arms of the U-plan. The arms themselves have three regularly placed bays on the ground floor, with matching piended ashlar dormers on the upper storey. A two-storey, blind bay is centrally located on a crowstepped gable end, featuring beaked putts. The rear of the arms is blank, with a central doorway and an adjacent crowstepped gable containing a single bay and a gablehead stack, which forms the side of the coach house link.

The north elevation, at the rear, consists of a single-storey, L-shaped stable block facing west, with regular window placement.

Twelve-pane timber sash and case windows are found in the dormers, and timber boarded doors open into the ground floor coach sheds. The main building has a piended, graded slate roof with zinc ridging and valleys, while the dormers have piended grey slate roofs. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods are visible.

The interior of the buildings was not inspected in 2000.

The boundary walls are high, constructed of rubble and topped with curved copes. A pair of squared ashlar gatepiers stand as gateposts, featuring cushion capitals with a projecting band course and a large stone ball mounted on a supporting bracket.

These buildings were constructed as stables for Oxenfoord Castle, located west-northwest of the castle. They share architectural details with other buildings associated with the castle, including the Home Farm, across the A68, and the Middle Lodge, at the end of the drive. The North and South Lodges, representing Gothic and Elizabethan revival styles respectively, serve as the formal entrances to the castle. The courtyard plan is reminiscent of medium to large farm steadings of the period in the Lothians.