Over Shannochill

Over Shannochill is a traditional farmhouse dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century, located in an isolated area to the southwest of Malling, within the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park. It is a two-storey, three-bay structure with a U-shaped steading behind, and it represents a relatively unaltered example of an improvement period farmhouse and modest steading.

The main south elevation is symmetrical, featuring a later central gabled porch flanked by single windows. There are single windows on both the ground and first floors of the east return, as well as on the ground and first floors of the rear north elevation. The rear elevation includes two additions: a substantial single-storey gabled addition to the left, which has a door and a single window overlooking the farmyard, and a single-storey addition to the right, which is advanced and includes a single window and door accessing the farmyard.

The interior was not accessible during the resurvey in 2004. However, the current owner noted that when they purchased the farm in the 1990s, the house was essentially a shell, with only the exterior walls and roof remaining intact.

The farmhouse is whitewashed with painted margins around the windows. It features a timber door with a two-pane fanlight at the porch and predominantly modern 12-pane timber sash and case windows, along with a single rooflight in the northeast extension at the rear. The pitched roof is covered with graded grey slates and has whitewashed coped gable-head stacks with circular clay cans.

The U-shaped steading to the north is single-storey and also whitewashed, with various openings, some of which have been enlarged, and a variety of rooflights. The roofs of the steading are mostly pitched, except for the southwest gable, which is piended, and some cast-iron rainwater goods are present.