Gavinburn Farm, Great Western Road, Old Kilpatrick

William Burn, mid 19th century. 2-storey, 3-bay, L-plan farmhouse (arranged as square plan farmhouse with 2-storey, gabled wing to NE) with 2 single storey, late 20th century, flat-roofed extensions to N. Collection of farm buildings to NW; single storey, square-plan, multi-gabled adjoining range of barns and cartsheds (principal gabled elevation to S); further stand-alone barn to left. Snecked and coursed, stugged and squared rubble to farmhouse; long and short stugged ashlar quoins with polished strips; lugged and tabbed, stugged ashlar surrounds to openings with ashlar mullions; polished, splayed margins; plain, projecting eaves cornice with rounded stone corbels; overhanging, timber bracketed eaves with plain bargeboards. Snecked and coursed, stugged and squared rubble to barns and cartsheds principal elevation, random rubble to sides and rear, sandstone ashlar dressings.

FARMHOUSE, S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3 bays, symmetrical. Recessed central entrance bay, timber boarded and glazed lean-to porch with plain side lights and fanlight, gabled breaking eaves dormer above. Flanking wide gabled bays, tripartite ground floor windows; bipartite 1st floor windows.

W ELEVATION: 2 bays. Ground floor, bipartite windows to both bays; gabled breaking eaves dormers with bipartite windows to 1st floor. Late 20th century flat-roofed conservatory and garage extensions recessed to left; wide bay (NE wing) further recessed to left.

N ELEVATION: 3-bay, advanced plain gabled elevation. Narrow central bay with flanking gables. Gabled NE wing to left; 2-storey gable end; shallower pitch than main. Late 20th century garage and roughcast conservatory extension to N and W of wing.

E ELEVATION: 4 bays (arranged 2-2). Narrow window at ground floor left, tripartite window to right, 2 windows (widened in late 20th century) to far right. Bipartite breaking eaves dormer to centre, 2 breaking eaves dormers further to right. Single storey, brick lean-to garage extension to far right.

FARM BUILDINGS: 4-bay cartshed and barn range; 2 segmentally- arched cartshed openings to central bays, ashlar voussoirs. Large, square opening to far left, steel lintel; 2 small, narrow windows to far right. Concrete skews to gables. Later metal lean-to shelter to W elevation. Single rectangular-plan barn to E; 2 single openings to ground floor, single, central opening to loft. Pitched roofs; grey slate; cat-slide vents; some cast-iron roof-lights.

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Predominantly PVCu look-a-like windows. H-plan pitched, grey slate roof; grey slate to dormers. Tall, corniced and shouldered ashlar stack to E and W ridges, with indented corners; circular clay cans. Smaller, rectangular gablehead stacks to NE corner and N wing.