Muirhouses Steading, Errol

Dated 1834. Fine planned 7-bay, 4-sided courtyard steading. Roughly squared and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings, some droved. Voussoirs; keystones; segmental- and round-headed openings.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Slightly advanced gabled bay to centre with broad keystoned segmental arch leading to courtyard, keystoned round-headed opening above with ropework-moulded dated stone in finialled gablehead. Segmental arches to flanking bays with door and flanking small openings beyond, and 3 regularly-disposed granary openings above.

SW ELEVATION: long range to right with door and granary opening to outer right, all other openings blocked. Advanced bay to left with altered almost full-height opening, row of 3 cart arches on return (that to left blocked) with 3 further openings above.

NW ELEVATION: long range with variety of openings to ground and at granary level.

NE ELEVATION: full-height opening under piended roof to outer right.

COURTYARD ELEVATIONS:

NE RANGE: SW ELEVATION: 5 segmental-headed cart arches each with granary opening above, pedestrian door to outer left.

SW RANGE: NE ELEVATION: 2 pedestrian doors to centre, remaining openings blocked at both levels.

SE RANGE: NW ELEVATION: cart arch partly blocked with brick and adjoining later covered pedestrian walkway bisecting courtyard. Bays to left with door and louvered opening above and similar smaller opening to right at ground. Further square window high up in bay to right.

Window and granary openings to principal elevation blocked with timber. Grey slates; corrugated to SW elevation of NE range. Ashlar-coped skews with flat skewputts to SE.

BOUNDARY WALLS: coped rubble boundary walls incorporating pyramidally-coped square-section ashlar gatepiers to W.