Steading With Horsemill, Mirkady

The building is a store located in Mirkady, dating from the mid-19th century with later alterations and additions. It is a single-storey, three-bay rectangular-plan symmetrical farmhouse, featuring a lower two-bay wing to the southeast and a similar single-bay wing to the northwest. The structure has an eaves cornice and is cement-rendered with concrete margins around the openings. At the rear, there is an earlier 19th-century L-plan steading with a horse mill attached to the external angle on the north side. The horse mill is constructed of coursed rubble, while the L-plan steading is made of rubble and harled materials. A free-standing, square-plan store is located to the southeast of the steading, built of harl-pointed rubble.

On the southwest (principal) elevation of the farmhouse, there is a deep-set, part-glazed door in the central bay, flanked by narrow lights. Each bay has a window, and the slightly recessed wing to the right also features a window in each bay. The left wing also has a window in its slightly recessed bay. Most of the windows have been replaced with uPVC. The roofs are covered with purple slate, with a piended roof on the main structure and the wings, and there are stone ridges. The building has tall, harled and cement-rendered, corniced wallhead stacks on both the west and east sides, along with predominantly cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1998.

The steading and horse mill consist of an L-plan cowshed/store, which has a steel sliding door on the south gable of the cowshed arm and another steel sliding door on the slightly higher east gable of the store arm, with a blank west gable. The cowshed has a purple slate roof with a stone ridge and small rooflights on both pitches. Inside, there is a central slurry channel. The horse mill, which abuts the external angle of the cowshed/store, has two-leaf boarded doors on the east side, three evenly-disposed slit openings on the north side, and two square-headed (blocked) doorways on the west side, with a narrow slit opening between them. The interior features radiating timber roof supports with a massive central timber cross beam.

The store is a square-plan building with a piended roof and a lean-to addition on the left side. It has three evenly spaced square-headed openings on the southwest side and a square-headed opening on the addition. The roof is covered with corrugated iron, while the addition has a stone-tiled roof, and both sections have cast-iron rainwater goods.