Steading, Blairfordel

The property comprises a house, steading, gate piers and boundary walls, and a bridge, all dating from the earlier to mid-19th century, originally serving the Blair Adam Estate and now used as a farmhouse.

The house is a restrained and simple former inn and post office. The principal elevation is of symmetrical coursed ashlar, and features a picturesque timber Doric columned porch and segmentally headed windows. Bulls eye windows are set within the gables. Originally possibly T-plan, the house is now a rectangular shape due to the addition of gabled wings to the northwest. The side and rear elevations are of snecked rubble with dressed openings and quoins. The render below the eaves of the principal elevation suggests that the house may have once had overhanging eaves that were later cut down. The roof is pitched slate with cast iron rainwater goods. Squat polygonal ashlar stacks with circular cans provide chimney provision.

The U-plan steading is situated to the north, with a cartshed to the northeast, adjoined by a wall extending west to the roadside. The cartshed has two openings, the one to the right close to the advanced left wing of the main house. Later brick and stone forestairs block the cart arch to the inner face of the left gable. Various openings are present to the inner face of the main block, some inserted later, and a cart arch to the far right is partly obscured by the advanced right wing, with a bulls eye window set within the gable. Few openings are visible to the rear of the steading. A small single-storey outshot is located to the rear which may have housed water-powered machinery, as a burn runs underneath. The steading roof is pitched slate, though in poor condition in some areas. To the north of the steading is a probably later 19th-century, rectangular-plan, two-storey building, likely a former granary, with a smaller single-storey and attic addition to the southeast. This granary has snecked rubble with dressed margins and quoins, a corrugated asbestos roof to the two-storey section and grey slates to the single-storey section. A rendered stone and brick covered cattle court, which is not listed, adjoins the rear of this building.

Low, square-plan, coursed ashlar gate piers with squat pyramidal caps are located at the southwest roadside, with a snecked rubble wall adjoining to the left. A stretch of wall to the south corner of the complex encloses a lower field and outbuildings, constructed of coped random rubble and swept at the corner.

The bridge, constructed of simple, single span random rubble, dates from the 19th century and carries a farm track over the Kinnaird Burn. It has a coped parapet.