farmyard complex

Detached four-bay single-storey lobby-entry house, built c. 1800, having windbreak to front. Corrugated-iron roof, hipped to east and pitched to west, with rendered chimneystack. Painted rendered sandstone walls, slightly battered. Square-headed openings with fixed timber and replacement timber windows, and painted stone sills. Moulded render cornice to windbreak over square-headed opening with timber battened door. Two-bay single-storey outbuilding to west, having corrugated-iron lean-to addition to south gable, with pitched corrugated-iron roofs and painted rendered sandstone walls, having square-headed openings with corrugated-iron doors. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding to south, having lean-to to south gable, with pitched corrugated-iron roof, painted rendered rubble sandstone walls and square-headed door and window openings and with metal door to north gable. Painted rubble sandstone boundary walls to front of house. Painted rubble sandstone boundary walls to site.

This is a very intact vernacular farmyard, the single-storey house being typical in size and form of the vernacular tradition. The window arrangement of the house may appear casual and indiscriminate, but is simply a response to the plan of the interior. The house retains its windbreak with moulded cornice, which adds interest to the façade and its steeply-pitched roof suggests the house was originally thatched, the house now being roofed in corrugated-iron which replaced thatch as a vernacular material in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The relatively intact farm outbuildings are arranged in the half-courtyard manner around the main house. The sandstone boundary walls enhance the setting of the house and farmyard.