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Remains of a farmstead. On the 1st edition OS map it is shown as five buildings, a possible walled garden to the south-east, and a pond and enclosure to the west. By the 2nd edition OS map the enclosure has been extended to the north to include the pond which has a mill dam and sluice marked. One building has been removed and the long rectangular building at the centre of the group is now L-shaped with the addition of a wing on the western gable. The remains of four buildings, all in derelict condition, are visible on vertical aerial photographs taken in 1966 by the OS. The 2006 map shows all the features, but the pond has been drained. When visited by the RCAHMS in 1998 the L-shaped building to the east was recorded as the farmhouse, consisting of two buildings, each of two storeys, roofless but surviving to chimney height. The garden to the south is enclosed by a low stony bank. To the west the reduced remains of the central long rectangular building survive as footings 34 m west-southwest to east-northeast by 5.3 m. To the south-west of this building are the footings of a 4 m square building. To the north of the long building are the remains of a threshing barn, 22 m east-west by 6 m, surviving best on the north up to 4 m high, the south being reduced to footings. At the west end of the north wall is a wheel pit. The former lade was traced for a length of 1.1 km. The building to the south of the former pond measured 14.5 m north-northeast to south-southwest by 5.7 m. It survives to a height of 3 m on the south-southwest. To the south-west of the steading within the area bounded by the track up the glen and by farm tracks to the steading is an area of rig and furrow. They are aligned roughly north-south and about 4 m in breadth.
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