Steading, Gateside

Later 18th century, additions mid 19th century. Quadrangular-plan steading. Whinstone rubble with stugged ashalr quoins and dressings to cart-arches of cartshed and granary. Boarded doors.

E RANGE: gate to steading yard to centre with cartshed and granary to right and ancillary buildings to left.

E ELEVATION: symmetrical 5-bay cartshed and granary; 5 segmental-car-arches, that to outer left with 2-leaf doors enclosing equipment shed. 5 small windows above. Lower piended return to N wing to outer right, door. Single storey block to left of yard entrance with door to left and window to right; door to courtyard elevation. Later modern sheds addjoined to left.

W (COURTYARD) ELEVATION: rear of cart shed and granary with stone forestair to door breaking eaves at 1st floor.

N RANGE: rubble wall to Linlithgow-Edinburgh road.

S (COURTYEARD) ELEVAITON: 3 covered cattle courts, rubble walls, timber gables.

W RANGE: barn to SW angle.

E (COURTYARD) ELEVATION: L-plan barn, door in re-entrant angle to right flanked by window to right at ground and 1st floor; large vehicle entrance in e-entrant angle to left with sliding door, window above.

S RANGE: low single storey range.

N (COURTYARD) ELEVATION: window to centre, large vehicel entrance to right with sliding door, door to left.

Fixed 6-pane to granary windows; louvre lower, fixed-pane upper to barn windows. Grey slate roof to cartshed and granary; red pantiled to N and W ranges; corrucated to S range. Ashlar coped skews to cartshed, sandstone stack to right gable.