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Former saw mill, now in use as a farmstead. The farmhouse, and probably also the steading, were built in 1862, possibly by Beaton, architect. It is shown on the 2nd edition OS map as two L-plan building with four associated rectangular-plan buildings, one of which is adjacent to a mill lade to the west. Current OS maps show all but the two L-plan buildings and the mill lade have been removed, with alterations to both remaining buildings. The farmhouse is single storey and attic, and is gabled with decorative, scrolled barge boards. It is constructed from squared and coursed, stugged, variegated granite with ashlar dressings, four-pane glazing in sash and case windows (small-pane to the lesser windows), coped end stacks and a grey slate roof. At the centre of the three-bay east elevation is a stone, gabled porch with stop-chamfered arrises, a shouldered doorway with a part-glazed door and narrow windows on returns. Above are dormers, with the outer dormers being larger and with swept eaves. The steading to the south is L-plan and single-storey with a loft. It is constructed from coursed variegated granite, with polished dressings, a grey slate roof, stone ridge, ashlar coped skews, scroll-bracketed skewputts and cast-iron rooflights. Features include cart-arches, a slate-hung gabled hayloft dormer and a serrated course at skewputt level and blind arrowslit. The north gable end is abutted by a timber outbuilding, masking a hayloft opening in the gablehead. The name Sternin derives from the original name for Birkhall, here revivied, referring to stepping stones across the River Muick.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)