Byre, Gatend is a Grade B listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 March 2004. Byre.
Byre, Gatend
- WRENN ID
- idle-tracery-sable
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- North Ayrshire
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 March 2004
- Type
- Byre
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Circa 1735. Single storey and attic byre at right angles to Gatend farmhouse, prominently sited at right angles to road S from Barrmill. Coursed sandstone rubble with dressed ashlar margins; ashlar eaves course, straight skews and scrolled skewputts. Cast-iron tie plates below wallhead. Cheese press stone in re-entrant angle.
NE ELEVATION: door to centre L; slit; cartshed opening (modern metal doors) with timber lintel to outer L.
SW ELEVATION: slit; partially blocked opening (brick infill) to centre, polished and droved ashlar lintel; smaller, lower blocked opening to R (old rubble infill) with roughly hewn lintel; slit.
NW GABLE: slit to attic; carved stones 'HK MW', '173?' (see Notes).
SE GABLE: large, tall opening (partially brick infilled) with timber lintel (may be later enlargement ?); blocked slit to attic.
INTERIOR: concrete byre divisions; rubble partition wall at NW end forming cartshed and hayloft.
Corrugated sheet metal roof, originally slated (some greyish-blue slates remain inside, 2003).
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