Cornhill

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

The steading comprises a U-plan, single-storey and attic block, including a horse engine house and a detached barn. It is built of random rubble with sandstone dressings and exhibits irregular fenestration. The centre range has prominent skylights, while the inner faces of the side ranges feature gablet ventilators. The threshing barn has a dormer hoist door under a slated gable on its outer face. The horse engine house has a polygonal roof supported by stone piers with wide openings, and it abuts the threshing barn. A detached barn, linked to the main range by later buildings, has a stone base with two tiers of slit ventilators, a vertically slatted wooden band below 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 at Glendarvel House, Kilmodan, Argyll and Bute.