Hall, Blairs Home Farm, Altyre

This is a picturesque Italianate farm steading, likely dating to around 1834 and possibly designed by Archibald Simpson, with later 19th-century alterations and additions attributed to W L Carruthers. The buildings are arranged as a group, resembling a churchyard, with a Club House range situated to the west at a slightly lower level. The entire steading is harled with contrasting polished and tooled ashlar dressings and margins.

The Tower Cottages consist of a pair of two-storey, two-bay buildings. They feature round-headed entrances in the outer bay of the east front, and round-headed windows on both the east and west elevations. Some original lattice-pane glazing remains, although much has been replaced with two- and four-pane sashes. A central ridge stack and a piended slate roof complete the cottages, which abut the south elevation of a prominent four-stage Italianate tower. The tower has narrow, round-headed bipartite windows on all faces of its first stage and paired round-headed windows on the second stage. A heavily corbelled ashlar third stage, possibly a later addition, has a shallow piended slate roof culminating in a ball finial. A large, rectangular two-storey storage range with continuous blind arcading to the upper storey abuts the west face of the tower and extends north; it has a piended slate roof.

A tall, two-storey Italianate cart shed and granary has six high round-headed cart bays on its west elevation. A north gable staircase leads to a loft, which is lit by round-headed windows, and a bellcote sits atop the south gable apex. Pond Cottage is a simple single-storey, three-bay south-facing cottage with a central door flanked by enlarged windows, end stacks, and a slate roof, with a modern extension to the rear.

The East Range forms the eastern side of the square, containing a blocked central round-headed entrance beneath a short, two-storey tower with exaggerated ashlar detailing. Cottage and farm office accommodation extends north and south, terminating in an irregular two-storey block at the south. The end portion of this block has a single-pitch roof, lunette gable lights and a style reminiscent of a lectern dovecot. The North Range is a long, altered single-storey and loft range with a continuous low arcaded frontage to the north elevation, covered by a slate roof.

The Club Room and associated cart bays are a two-storey, three-bay range built against a westward-facing slope. A first-floor entrance is accessed at the east via a wooden staircase. The centre bay is slightly advanced and rises above the flanking wings, having lattice-pane glazing. A range of four tall arcaded cart bays is set back at the south gable and the building has piended slate roofs.