Steading, Badenyon

This ensemble comprises a 1906 farmhouse, a steading, and a cottage, all situated near the site of Badenyon Castle in Glenbuchat. The buildings demonstrate a connection to the Glenbuchat Estate style, incorporating distinctive glazing patterns and overhanging eaves.

Jeannie’s House is a small, two-storey and attic, three-bay farmhouse constructed of snecked rubble with squared rubble quoins and margins. The symmetrical south elevation features a pitched, timber-framed porch in the centre bay, flanked by bipartite windows. Bipartite dormers and a central cast-iron rooflight are above. The windows are timber sash and case, with 3-pane upper sashes and tall 2-pane lower sashes to the front; the rear windows have a 4-pane pattern. The roof is covered in grey slates and contains coped ashlar stacks with clay cans and ashlar-coped skews. Inside, the ground floor west room contains a cast-iron stove built into an open hearth, and a timber fire surround with tiled cheeks and a cast-iron grate in the east room. A timber dog-leg staircase features a newel post with a ball finial.

The steading is an L-plan structure, with an earlier rectangular range running east-west, and a wing added to the southwest during the 19th century. It is built of roughly coursed rubble with squared rubble dressings, incorporating some tooled stones which may have come from Badenyon Castle. The courtyard elevation exhibits a variety of openings including boarded timber doors, small square windows, and cast-iron rooflights. A pedestrian door, featuring a wrought iron hinge likely originating from Badenyon Castle, is positioned towards the right. Stonework on the west side dates to 1887, possibly indicating the date of the extension. The north elevation is largely blank, with small square openings and a raised horse walk, fronting a blocked opening that formerly housed a millwheel shaft. The interior retains original features such as timber trevises and mangers, cobble sett floors, and a timber hayloft/bothy structure.

Jeannie’s Mother’s House is a single-storey, three-bay cottage with a central door flanked by windows and a corrugated iron roof with two traditional rooflights. It is built of rubble with remnants of lime render and large granite lintels. Although cleared internally, the cottage retains a flat-arched, double-lintelled stone hearth and remnants of boarded timber panelling.