Muirhouses Steading, Errol

Muirhouses Steading, dated 1834, is a well-designed courtyard steading with seven bays and four sides. It is constructed from roughly squared and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings, some of which are droved. The building features voussoirs, keystones, and both segmental and round-headed openings.

The southeast elevation is symmetrical, with a slightly advanced gabled bay at the center. This bay has a broad keystoned segmental arch leading into the courtyard and a keystoned round-headed opening above, featuring a ropework-moulded stone with a date in the gablehead. Flanking bays have segmental arches with doors and small openings, along with three regularly spaced granary openings above.

On the southwest elevation, there is a long range to the right with a door and a granary opening on the outer right, while all other openings are blocked. The left side has an advanced bay with an altered nearly full-height opening, and a row of three cart arches on the return, with the leftmost arch blocked. There are three additional openings above.

The northwest elevation consists of a long range with a variety of openings at both ground and granary levels. The northeast elevation features a full-height opening under a piended roof on the outer right.

In the courtyard, the northeast range's southwest elevation has five segmental-headed cart arches, each with a granary opening above, and a pedestrian door on the outer left. The southwest range's northeast elevation has two pedestrian doors in the center, with the remaining openings blocked at both levels. The southeast range's northwest elevation has a cart arch that is partly blocked with brick, and there is a later covered pedestrian walkway bisecting the courtyard. The left bays have a door and a louvered opening above, with a similar smaller opening to the right at ground level, and a further square window high up in the right bay.

The window and granary openings on the principal elevation are blocked with timber. The roof is covered with grey slates, while the southwest elevation of the northeast range is corrugated. The building features ashlar-coped skews with flat skewputts on the southeast.

The boundary walls are made of coped rubble and include pyramidally-coped square-section ashlar gatepiers on the west.