Steading With Cobbled Yard, Glengyle, Loch Katrine

The steading at Glengyle, Loch Katrine, dates from the early to mid 19th century, with possible elements from the late 18th century or earlier. It is a single-storey, U-shaped building constructed from random rubble, including large boulders, and features slaister pointing.

On the southeast elevation, there is an advanced arm to the left with a central door and a window to the left flank. To the right return, there is a window and door. The advanced arm on the right has an inserted two-leaf door at the centre and a door in the left return. The connecting range is set back to the centre, featuring an inserted doorway to the far left, a door near the centre, and another door at the far right, with a small square window between the doors.

The northwest elevation has a door to the far left and two advanced modern buttresses with a segmental archway between them. To the right of the archway is a door, with a blocked window to its right and a single window at the far right.

On the northeast elevation, there are three ventilation slits to the far left byre, a possible drainage hole near the centre, a small blocked opening or window in the centre, a window to the right, and a large inserted door to the right, with a window at the far right.

The southeast elevation features an off-centre door to the left, with two ventilation slits to the left of the door and three to the right.

The building has timber boarded doors and 2-pane upper windows with timber louvers below the windows on the west arm. It has a piended slate roof, slightly swept, with slates laid in diminishing courses and numerous rooflights.

Inside, there are three rooms on the west side, with dividing rubble walls that do not reach the current roof level. The southern room has lime plastered walls and shows evidence of a possible former flue on the north wall, with visible changes in wallhead height. An archway from the northwest leads into a small middle room, which has a projection of stonework in the southern inner wall, likely the rear of the possible flue. There is a further small room to the north, with a blocked opening between the northern and middle rooms. The central section includes a linear animal shed with later feeding troughs and timber boarding between the rooms. The eastern byre has splayed ventilation slits, and there is a stone partition wall separating it from the central section. A loft has been inserted in the southern area, and the roof features common open rafters.

The cobbled yard is located between the two arms of the steading.