farmyard complex

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1860, with windbreak entrance, lean-to single-storey extension to rear and lean-to single-storey outbuilding attached to northwest end. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and replacement rainwater goods. Roughcast-rendered walls. Square-headed openings, diminishing to first floor, with smooth-render surrounds, two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to front elevation with painted stone sills, and timber battened door. Two-bay two-storey outbuilding to southeast with external stone steps to northwest gable, one-bay single-storey addition to southeast and single-storey lean-to extension to rear. Corrugated-iron roofs, pitched to main block and southeast addition and lean-to to rear addition, with rubble stone walls, rendered to additions, and square-headed openings with timber lintels and timber battened doors.

This modest, but relatively intact farmyard, overlooking Ardara, has retained its early character. The house, which might originally have been single-storey, is enhanced by the retention of timber sash windows and a battened timber door. The feature of smaller first floor openings is characteristic of two-storey vernacular houses. The adjoining outbuildings, particularly that with external stone steps, are distinctive and typical of the region and add significantly to the setting.