Description
Earlier 19th century. 2-storey 3-bay farmhouse with basement,
at SE end of courtyard steading; gatepiers at SW.
House: squared red rubble coursers, ashlar dressings and
painted margins; near full-height shallow W wing (raised in
brick) also painted. N (courtyard) and S elevations each with
central door, pedimented doorpiece to S with engaged Roman
Doric columns (modern door), N door behind glazed porch,
steps down to basement door alongside. Windows mostly sashes
with 12-pane glazing pattern, round-headed and keystoned tall
stair window on E flank has intersecting tracery. End stacks,
piended roof, with graded slates. Iron-railed small garden to
courtyard.
Interior: some pilastered doorcases; depressed-arched screen
to stairs.
Gatepiers: (contemporary with house) 2 chamfered square
painted ashlar piers, projecting caps with cavetto cornice.
Wrought-iron gates.
Steading: L-plan, walls closing court at S and E both linked
to house. Rubble-built with ashlar dressings, all whitewashed
- W range (barn) probably built 2nd half of 18th century;
2-storey (upper loft storey), L-plan (single bay cartshed
with keystoned flat arches, forestair built against
courtyard S wall; triangular dovecote in E gable; modern
lean-to to court; roofed with graded slates; stable in
altered and heightened N range, with corrugated roof.