Byre, Gatend

The byre at Gatend, dating from around 1735, is a single-storey structure with an attic, positioned at right angles to the Gatend farmhouse and prominently located next to the road leading south from Barrmill. It is constructed from coursed sandstone rubble with dressed ashlar margins, featuring an ashlar eaves course, straight skews, and scrolled skewputts. Below the wallhead, there are cast-iron tie plates, and a cheese press stone is located in the re-entrant angle.

On the northeast elevation, there is a door positioned to the centre left, a slit window, and a cartshed opening with modern metal doors and a timber lintel to the outer left. The southwest elevation features a slit window, a partially blocked opening with brick infill at the centre, which has a polished and droved ashlar lintel, and a smaller, lower blocked opening to the right with old rubble infill and a roughly hewn lintel, along with another slit window.

The northwest gable has a slit window leading to the attic and displays carved stones marked 'HK MW' and '173?'. The southeast gable features a large, tall opening that is partially brick infilled and has a timber lintel, which may indicate a later enlargement, along with a blocked slit window to the attic.

Inside, the byre has concrete divisions and a rubble partition wall at the northwest end that forms a cartshed and hayloft. The roof is made of corrugated sheet metal, although it was originally slated, with some greyish-blue slates still remaining inside as of 2003.