Farmhouse, Gartartan Home Farm

This is a mid-19th century farmhouse, believed to have been built around 1840. It was constructed as the Home Farm for the Gartmore Estate and is situated to the northeast of Gartmore House (which is listed separately). The farmhouse sits on a sloping site, below the Gartartan Home Farm Steading (also listed separately), with the upper floor of its north gable level with the farmyard forecourt. The farmhouse and steading likely share a similar construction date and architectural details, including rusticated hoodmoulds over windows. Together, they contribute to the architectural character of the Gartmore estate, demonstrating a well-built 19th-century home farm designed to serve a large estate.

The west-facing elevation is asymmetrical, featuring a large, slightly projecting gabled block to the right, and a three-bay section to the left with evenly spaced ground floor windows, and two windows breaking the eaves on the first floor. The south elevation is complex, with a two-bay block to the left, a prominent advanced gable with a canted bay window on the ground floor in the center, and a later porch set in the re-entrant angle between the block and the gable. A long, single-story range, originally a byre but now serving as the entrance hall and kitchen, adjoins to the right. A piend-roofed extension, originally an office for the estate factor according to the present owners, sits in the re-entrant angle between the center gable and the single-story range. Window openings are varied. A single-story former dairy, now a bathroom, stands to the rear with a piended roof, alongside a larger, 20th-century gabled addition that now houses the modern staircase.

Evidence suggests the roofline has been raised, with areas of render and inserted windows visible below the eaves of the two-story section. The current owners have confirmed this, noting that old roof timbers remain visible in the loft.

The farmhouse has been extensively modernized inside, with alterations to the layout. Some timber working shutters remain. The majority of the windows are timber sash and case, some with lying panes, others with multipaned upper sashes and plate glass lower sashes. The house is built from squared and snecked rubble, with some rendering to the rear elevation. The roofs are slated and pitched, with piended roofs over the kitchen, study, porch, and former dairy. Stacks are rendered with cornices and decorative clay cans, alongside painted timber bargeboards and boxed eaves. Modern timber glazed doors have been added.