Aithbank Farmhouse & Stable, Aith

Aithbank Farmhouse and Stable, dating from the 18th century, is a two-storey, three-bay symmetrical farmhouse with a single-storey gabled byre attached to the south gable. There is an additional single-storey byre to the north, with a stable positioned at right angles beyond it. The farmhouse features random rubble walls that are harled.

The west elevation is symmetrical, showcasing a gabled double-doored timber porch with a two-pane fixed light at the center of the ground floor, flanked by windows on both the ground and first floors. The east elevation is also symmetrical, with two evenly spaced windows at the ground level only. Both the north and south gables are blank.

The principal elevation has 12-pane and 4-pane timber sash and case windows, while the rear elevation features 2 and 4-pane fixed lights. The roof is made of stone slabs, with harl-pointed rubble gablehead stacks, stone slab copes, thackstanes, and circular cans, as well as harled skew copes.

Inside, the entrance porch has a stone-flagged floor, and the walls and ceilings are lined with wide-boarded timber. The ground floor has four-panel doors, while the first floor features vertically-boarded doors. The south room on the ground floor has a plain timber chimneypiece, with decorative tiling surrounding an Art Nouveau cast-iron insert, and an open timber ceiling. A timber stair with a simple handrail and polygonal finials on the newels is located at the center. The first floor has coombed ceilings, and the north bedroom includes a boarded timber box bed with entrance and press doors on either side.

The south byre, adjoining the south gable of the house, has a low south gable and a timber and turf roof that was partially collapsed in 1997, with a door centered in the west wall. The north byre has a random rubble east wall and north gable, with a vertically-boarded timber west wall and south gable that are predominantly in ruins, though some vertically-boarded internal stalls remain, along with remnants of a turf and tarred roof.

The stable features gabled rubble walls, with the north wall incorporating the boundary wall to the road. Its south elevation has two bays, with a vertically-boarded timber door in the right bay and a hen hole at low level in the left bay.

The boundary and kailyard walls are made of random rubble, with the east boundary wall running alongside the road. The rectangular kailyard on the site slopes down from the house to the shore on the west.