Description

Dated 1852 with later additions and alterations. 2-storey (1st floor breaking eaves), 5-bay, rectangular-plan farmhouse. Squared and snecked tooled cream sandstone to front; rubble sandstone to sides and rear; brick-built side addition. Base course; timber eaves course. Droved quoins and long and short surrounds to chamfered openings; painted mullions; projecting cills.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: gabled porch projecting at centre with modern door and side-lights; shield embossed 'W.C.L. 1852' centred in gablehead with decorative bargeboards and kingpost truss. Bipartite windows at ground in bay recessed to right and 2 bays recessed to left; square-headed doorway to outer right; decorative bargeboards to gabled dormerheads breaking eaves in 4 bays above. Single storey, lean-to addition slightly recessed to outer right.

W (SIDE) ELEVATION: blind gable end.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: single windows centred at both floors; louvred window at 1st floor to outer right. Various openings at ground to left of centre.

8-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to front; some modern windows at rear. Slate roof. Brick-built ridge and apex stacks; cans missing.

INTERIOR: not seen 1999.

Statement of Interest

A late but well-detailed farmhouse to the E of its associated steading - see separate list entry for the former horse mill and barn. Rutherfurd's notes a Mr Joseph Middlemas as farmer here in 1866.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77774903

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Recommended Books

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)