Tyntyla Farmhouse

Tyntyla Farmhouse is a tall building constructed with partly coursed rubble, featuring larger roughly dressed quoins and timber lintels. The outer end is built up with boulders. The farmhouse has modern slated roofs, with some areas patched with corrugated sheets. The wall at the junction of the byre and the rear wall of the farmhouse is checked forward, and there is an added slated lean-to kitchen. An upper-level hayloft opening is located to the right above double boarded doors, which are situated under a drip course.

The entrance front of the farmhouse is low and two-storey, with one small window (modern glazing) under a stone hood on each side of a small gabled porch that has a timber lintel and a narrowed inner doorway. There is a large square chimney on the downhill side and an original pine end stack, which is flanked by a gable window facing an uphill bank that is revetted, with walls connecting to the front garden.

The farmhouse's plan retains a hall and kitchen with an inner room on the ground floor, an arched passage that was formerly linked to the cowhouse, and a turning timber staircase that flanks the large chimney, which originally had an inglenook. The ground floor features massive beams with feathered chamfers and smaller cross-beams. Metal racking and hooks are still in place. A fine timber arched doorway at the first-floor landing leads to the main stair and has a corbelled stone roof. The full attic storey is accessed via a turning stone stair located over the ground-floor arch beside the chimney. The roof has pegged D-frame trusses, which are boarded in, with chamfered feet embedded in the walls of the lower storey. A brick jamb under a timber lintel connects the first-floor door from the attic stair to the hayloft over the cowhouse. The cowhouse and loft feature pegged D-frame trusses with trenched overlapping purlins and short inset sections of wall-plate. The limewashed interior of the animal house includes a massive stepped buttress supporting decayed stop-chamfered beams. Much of the ground floor areas are covered with stone flags.