Easter Inch Farmhouse, Blackburn Road, Bathgate

Easter Inch Farmhouse and steading dates from 1869, with later alterations and additions. It is an architect-designed farm court arranged in a U-plan, with a courtyard partly enclosed to the east by a wall. The farmhouse is incorporated into the north range, featuring a three-stage Baronial tower and a pend. The buildings are constructed of random and squared rubble with ashlar dressings.

The north range's outer elevation has a regular masonry, symmetrical two-storey, seven-bay residential centrepiece, flanked to the outer right by the gabled end of the west range. A pointed-arched pend entrance is set within an advanced gabled bay at the centre, with a moulded surround and stylised capitals to the supporting columns. There are three windows in the gablehead above the pend; three bays flank each side, with a farmhouse to the east and cottages to the west. Each of these bays has a door at the centre, flanked by windows at ground and first floor levels, with gabled dormerheads. A single-storey wing of the farmhouse extends to the outer left, with a slightly advanced outer gable.

The courtyard elevation features a flat-arch to the pend and an engaged, square-section tower flanking to the left. The tower’s lower stage has rounded arrises and corbelled to square above the pend, with a window and breaking eaves in the towerhead. The towerhead is adorned with a corbel table, dropping as an apron below the wallhead window, and has a swept pyramidal roof with a finial. Flanking bays are irregular, including a two-storey gabled later addition to the left and a gabled dormerhead to the first-floor window to the right. A single-storey cottage is to the outer right, with a modern porch addition and a picture window.

The west range contains a cartshed and granary at its centre, with two wide segmental carriage arches flanked to the right by a narrower arch to the court. A door is to the penultimate right, alongside a later flat-arch by the re-entrant angle. There is a blank section at ground level to the rear, with small ventilation grilles to the byre and a square opening under the eaves to the hayloft, flanking a gabled hayloft dormer. The gabled return to the north has two windows at ground level (one blinded) and a single gablehead window.

The windows are narrow, eight-pane, timber sash and case. The roofs are covered in grey slates, with plain bargeboards. A coping band defines the stone stacks. An enclosing tall rubble wall completes the steading.