Steading, Gateside

The Steading at Gateside is a later 18th-century quadrangular-plan agricultural building, with additions from the mid-19th century. It is constructed from whinstone rubble, featuring stugged ashlar quoins and dressings around the cart-arches of the cartshed and granary. The building includes boarded doors.

On the east range, there is a gate leading into the steading yard at the center, with the cartshed and granary to the right and ancillary buildings to the left. The east elevation is symmetrical, showcasing a 5-bay cartshed and granary with five segmental cart-arches. The outer left arch has two-leaf doors that enclose an equipment shed, and there are five small windows above. To the outer right, there is a lower piended return to the north wing with a door. A single-storey block is located to the left of the yard entrance, featuring a door on the left and a window on the right, along with a door facing the courtyard. There are later modern sheds attached to the left.

The west elevation, facing the courtyard, shows the rear of the cartshed and granary, with a stone forestair leading to a door that breaks the eaves at the first floor. The north range has a rubble wall adjacent to the Linlithgow-Edinburgh road. The south elevation, also facing the courtyard, contains three covered cattle courts with rubble walls and timber gables.

In the southwest angle, the west range includes a barn. The east elevation of the courtyard features an L-plan barn with a door in the re-entrant angle to the right, flanked by a window on both the ground and first floors. There is a large vehicle entrance in the re-entrant angle to the left, equipped with a sliding door and a window above. The south range is a low single-storey structure. The north elevation of the courtyard has a window in the center, a large vehicle entrance to the right with a sliding door, and a door to the left.

The granary windows are fixed 6-pane, while the barn windows have a louvre lower section and a fixed-pane upper section. The cartshed and granary have a grey slate roof, the north and west ranges are covered with red pantiles, and the south range has a corrugated roof. Ashlar coped skews are present on the cartshed, and there is a sandstone stack on the right gable.