Farm house in Ardocheasty

Detached four-bay single-storey farmhouse, c.1825. Renovated, c.1925, with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch added. Refenestrated, c.2000. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, rendered coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Flat corrugated-iron roof to porch with rendered coping. Unpainted rendered walls to front (south-east) elevation with unpainted roughcast walls to remainder. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, and rendered surrounds. Replacement uPVC casement windows, c.2000. Square-headed door opening with replacement glazed uPVC door, c.2000, having overlight. Set back from road in own grounds. (ii) Attached two-bay single-storey outbuilding, c.1825, perpendicular to north-east with square-headed carriageway. Renovated, c.1975. Now disused and derelict. Pitched slate roof (partly collapsed) with clay ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods on rendered squared rubble stone eaves. Unpainted lime rendered walls over random rubble stone construction. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, and replacement louvered iron panels, c.1975. Square-headed carriageway with replacement iron-sheeted rolling door, c.1975. (iii) Detached three-bay single-storey outbuilding, c.1825, to south-west. Reroofed, c.1975. Pitched roof with painted replacement corrugated-iron, c.1975, iron ridge tiles, and rendered coping. Unpainted lime rendered walls over random rubble stone construction. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, and remains of timber fittings. Square-headed door opening with timber boarded door.

An appealing group of small-scale buildings forming a farm complex of some vernacular interest, as identified by the informal arrangement and proportions to the farm house, together with the traditional construction in locally-sourced materials to all of the structures. Although many of the buildings have fallen into disrepair, the group remains an important feature of the townscape.