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Former farmstead, now in use as a distillery, with C listed farmhouse, built by Thomas Mackenzie in 1848-51. It is depicted on the OS 1st and 2nd edition maps. The 1st edition shows a U-plan steading, open to the South, largely surrounding an L-plan building. A further rectangular building extending South from the South-West corner of the L-plan building forms the West side of a second court. The farmhouse stands to the South-East of the steading buildings. By the time of the 2nd edition, the rectangular building has been removed. The L-plan building is joined to the steading, and enlarged to fill much of the court. Only the lower walls of the building within the court remain. It is an East facing single storey and attic 4-bay building of 2 builds. The farmhouse is harled, with tooled ashlar margins and dressings. The centre door of the original building is sheltered by a crowstepped gabled porch. There is a round-headed entrance, with moulded margins and blind panel above and with a projecting rectangular bay window to the right. A semi-circular drystone wall encloses the garden fronting the house. It was originally 3-bay, and it has a single bay addition continuous with the frontage. First floor windows break the wallhead under crowstepped gablets. 2- and 12-pane glazing is used, and there are moulded copes to the margined sandstone ridge and crowstepped gables. There is a wing to the rear. Photographic survey was undertaken in 2013 prior to the conversion of the farmstead to a distillery.
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