Auchenbee

Auchenbee is an earlier-mid 19th century farm steading, situated facing south in a U-shaped layout. The complex consists of a central two-storey, three-bay farmhouse and single-storey flanking wings.

The farmhouse is symmetrical and built of squared brown whin rubble in regular courses, with cream ashlar dressings and margins featuring droved tails. A central south-facing door is topped by a pedimented timber doorcase, with a ball finial at the apex. The windows follow a regular pattern of four-pane sash and case glazing, though these were boarded up in 1991. The roof is slate, with bracketed, slightly overhanging eaves. A pair of tall red brick end stacks are present. The flanks and rear elevation, along with a two-storey rear projection, are harled.

The single-storey wings are attached to the farmhouse by single-storey, single-bay links to the east and west. They are constructed of brown whin rubble with droved ashlar dressings and have slated roofs.

The west wing has a pitched roof and three bays facing the courtyard, featuring a wide, flat, segmental-arched cart bay on the left, a central door, and a vehicular entrance with a boarded door on tracks to the right. A loft opening is visible at the south gable. A two-bay cartshed block projects at a right angle to the west, with a slated half-piend roof.

The east wing, also single-storey and lofted, possesses a pair of doors on the courtyard elevation (the inner door is now blocked as a window), a stretch of blind wall to the right, and a door with a blocked hayloft opening at the south gable. A former addition that masked the east elevation has been demolished.

A contemporary detached single-storey block stands to the southeast. It features rubble construction with contrasting droved ashlar dressings and a slated piend roof that slopes down to a mono-pitch roof over an end bay, potentially serving as a sty or kennels, and which has two horizontal slit ventilators on the south wall. The east elevation includes a horizontal slit ventilator to the left, a centrally placed door, and alterations to the right.

Historical records from 1859-60, including the Ordnance Survey Namebooks, describe the steading as "a large and superior steading," and it was then owned by James Duncan. The 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map from 1864-5 provides further detail.