Farmsteading, Mid Auchenmade Farm

Circa 1770, with early 19th century additions. Single-storey and attic 3-bay rectangular farmhouse with pitched roof porch, rear extension and adjoining single storey ranges. Painted coursed rock-faced ashlar with painted smooth ashlar margins and projecting sills. Painted ashlar angle margins, base and band course.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: central farmhouse: piended projecting enclosed porch, window to end; modern timber and glazed panel door to right return; ground floor window either side of porch with matching gabled dormers above. To left: adjoining single storey range with sliding timber doors.

Adjoining single storey 3-bay range to right: door to left with FEAR GOD TB AR 1788 carved into lintel. Recessed concealed range to right: pair of doors with small irregularly placed windows at lintel height.

E ELEVATION: gable end with narrow slit window to ground floor R and gable head.

S (REAR) ELEVATION: mostly single storey with projecting extension to centre, irregular fenestration.

W ELEVATION: gable end with painted high stone wall to R concealing range.

Replacement uPVC windows; some unglazed slit windows for ventilation to barns and byres. Piended grey slate roof with lead ridging and valleys. Cast-iron rainwater goods. 2 coursed stone gable stacks with projecting copes and paired plain cans.

INTERIOR: (seen 2009). Modernised, but with original room plan of house largely extant. Some timber panelled internal doors. Stone and slate barn adjoining to E: concrete floor with partial timber loft.

OUTBUILDINGS: traditional single storey white-washed farm buildings including cartshed with loft to NW of farmhouse; stone forestair with stone slabbed platform at entrance leading to hayloft; small stone and slate byre; modern hay shed.