Description
Farmhouse with additions in style of Walter Newall dated
1840; (altered) courtyard steading to N perhaps also part
built 1840. All rubble built with ashlar dressings; house is
painted, with contrasting ashlar margins and projecting
cills; steading whitewashed. All roofed with graded slates.
HOUSE: seems originally to have been L-plan, but maybe only
slightly pre-dating 1840; essentially S-facing and
asymmetrical; 3 bays (ie of original house) with pedimented
central door and advanced and gabled left bay; altered right
bay; 2 near full-height (1840) rear wings to courtyard with
back door recessed between.
Single windows, sashes, all originally small-paned, blind
windows in E gable and N gable of (lesser) eastmost rear wing
with astragals cut in ashlar; 4-pane glazing at S (excluding
altered canted window), rear wings with 9-pane glazing at 1st
floor. Shaped skews and skewputts; end and axial stacks with
paired octagonal flues.
STEADING: 3 adjoining ranges arranged in U-plan, courtyard
entered either side by detached S range. 2-storey W range
(barn) with cartshed (3+1 bays) 3-bay stable, loft with door
and small openings in regular bays; S gable rebuilt in brick.
N range 2 storeys at W end, remainder with courtyard wall
demolished and with modern corrugated roof; low byre at E
(?heightened) with shouldered doorways and series of
rooflights.