Description

Later 19th century, 2-storey, 3-bay farmhouse with single storey service wing projecting at rear. Grey sandstone, squared and snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings.

W ELEVATION: gabled and advanced bay at centre with corniced and pilastered doorway at ground; hoodmould to 1st floor window; blind trefoil panel at apex; crowsteps and beak skewputts to gablehead. Window to each floor in flanking bays.

E ELEVATION: tall single storey, peind-roofed wing at rear with door flanked by windows under catslide to N and remaining openings altered. Outer 2-storey bays of house with window to each floor.

Side elevations blank each with single ground floor window to W.

Small-pane glazing pattern to sash and case windows.

Grey slates to piend roofs. Shouldered and corniced wallhead stacks.

RETAINING WALLS: sandstone rubble retaining walls with semi-circular coping. Simple wrought-iron gates to N.

Statement of Interest

The farmhouse turns its back on Crookstone steading to E, and stands prominently in the landscape around.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56618267

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings