Steading, Cornhill

A steading and farmhouse dating to circa 1871, designed by William Leiper for Cornhill House, which was built by Alex Kay. The farmhouse is a single-storey and attic structure of random rubble with sandstone dressings. The elevation to the roadway has three bays, each with an open eaved gable. An entrance is situated to the left of the centre bay. The left bay features a timber-mullioned and transomed canted bay on the ground floor, while the centre and right bays have wooden mullioned and transomed bipartites with relieving arches above and a cill course. All gables incorporate bipartites with mullions and a cill course. A porch with a catslide roof is located to the right.

The steading is arranged in a U-plan, comprising a single-storey and attic block, a horse engine house, and a detached barn. It is constructed of random rubble with sandstone dressings and has irregular fenestration. The central range features prominent skylights, and the inner faces of the side ranges have gablet ventilators. The threshing barn has a dormer hoist door set within a slated gable on the outer face.

The horse engine house has a polygonal roof supported on stone piers with wide openings, and it abuts the threshing barn. The detached barn has a stone base with two tiers of slit ventilators, a vertically slatted wooden band, and a piended roof.

All roofs are slated, with open eaves and prominent rafter ends. This is one of two steadings known to have been designed by Leiper; the other is located at Glendarvel House, Kilmodan, Argyll and Bute.