Knock Steadings

Knock Steadings is a late 19th-century U-plan steading that opens to the east and features central ranges. It is constructed from squared and coursed granite with ashlar dressings.

The south range consists of a single storey and an attic/hayloft, which includes both a bothy and stable. The east gable end has a door and window at ground level, a gablehead window, and an apex stack. The south elevation has windows to the right, a wallhead stack in the centre, and a piend-roofed hayloft dormer, which is slate-hung and flanked by an additional door at ground level to the left. The courtyard elevation features windows to the left and doors to the right.

The west range is a long link range with windows in the outer bays of the courtyard elevation and gabled ridge ventilators.

The north range is two storeys high and serves as a cartshed and hayloft/store. Its east gable mirrors that of the south range but lacks a stack and is taller. The six-bay courtyard elevation has a door by the re-entrant angle to the left and square-headed cart arches in the centre and to the right, with four windows above for the hayloft/store.

The byre/cattle court is a rectangular-plan byre block located at the centre of the courtyard to the west. It has covered, low projections to the east that end in mirrored gabled, two-bay stone sheds, each with two doors facing east and blank return gables. The byre block features a wide cattle opening to the east, along with a door and window to the south, and has a gambrel roof.

The building includes small-pane sash and case windows as well as top hopper windows. The roof is covered with purple slates, clay ridge tiles, and lead flashing, and features rooflights, stacks, and ventilators as previously mentioned.