Sawmill And Banked Walls, Fuel Store, Invergelder Steading With Tool Shed

The site comprises an 1861 H-plan steading, a toolshed (1864), a fuel store (1870-71), a sawmill, and associated banked drystone walls. The steading’s main courtyard faces northwest. The buildings are constructed of squared and coursed granite with ashlar dressings, with grey slates for roofing.

The steading consists of a single-storey linking range with three distinct ranges surrounding a central courtyard. The northeast range features a gable end facing northwest with two pointed cart arches at ground level, set upon a cobbled floor, and a granary/hayloft opening above, topped with a ball finial. Regularly spaced openings are blinded to the northwest courtyard, with smaller granary openings above, except for one door and window. A battered buttress is located at the outer corner, with a blind door beneath eaves. The southeast gable also has a granary/hayloft opening. An abutting timber shed houses a wheel recess and a cast-iron undershot water wheel, roughly 4 feet wide and 14 feet in diameter.

The southwest range has a hayloft/granary above stores to the south, stables with a hayloft above at the centre, and a bothy at the west end. The northwest gable end has two windows at ground level (one blinded) and a hayloft door, again with a ball finial. The courtyard elevation has a stable door flanked by windows to the left, with two louvred and one blinded opening above. To the right are two doors, each with a blinded opening above. The rear elevation features a gabled bay which advances slightly at the centre, with a blind door at ground level and another door above. Three bays flank each side of this central bay, with blinded openings, save for a window at the centre of the ground floor to the left and a louvred opening above to the right. A door is flanked by windows on the right-hand bays. A wallhead stack sits between the penultimate and outer left bays.

The central range has three doors at the centre and right of the courtyard elevation, with the doors to the right being broader. A door is flanked by windows to the left; a sliding machinery door provides access to a broad opening to the right. The rear elevation has a segmental arched pend to the left of the centre and a window to that side also.

Four-pane glazing is used in sash and case windows, and doors are boarded. Grey slates cover the roofs, accented by rooflights. Ashlar coped skews are present, incorporating scroll-bracketed skewputts.

The toolshed and fuel store are free-standing ranges, situated at right angles to the rear of the steading. The toolshed, running north-south/southeast, faces northeast and sits on a sloping ground. It features irregular broad and narrow openings under the eaves, some with doors and boarded infill sections, interspersed with windows of varying sizes. A blank gable faces northwest, with a later timber addition to the southeast gable.

The fuel store, running northeast-southwest and facing northwest, has a machinery door to the northeast gable. It comprises nine bays to the northwest, with four large windows and one two-leaf door to the left, all with spaced boarding. Four openings are located to the right – three with two-leaf broad doors and one pedestrian entrance.

The sawmill is a single-storey, L-plan structure to the southeast, primarily constructed of coursed granite rubble with a slatted timber drying shed to the south. It has three- and six-pane fixed timber windows and boarded timber doors, with graded grey and purple slates for roofing and cast-iron rooflights. A wallhead stack is located in the re-entrant angle to the south.

Drystone walls of squared and coursed granite retain the ground to the northwest and southeast of the steading, with earth banked up to the inner wallheads.