farmyard complex — SMITHSTOWN

Farmyard complex, c.1875, probably incorporating fabric of earlier ranges, pre-1840, on site including: (i) Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to ground floor, and single-bay single-storey lean-to return. Refenestrated. Hipped slate roof (continuing into lean-to to return; gabled to porch) with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack having saw tooth-profiled course, decorative timber bargeboards to gable having finial to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted roughcast walls with rendered strips to ends, stringcourse to first floor, and rendered walls to porch having quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with painted sills (forming part of stringcourse to first floor), and replacement uPVC casement windows retaining some two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door. Set back from road in own grounds with random rubble stone boundary wall having rubble stone piers. (ii) Detached two-bay single-storey outbuilding. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rubble stone eaves. Random rubble stone walls. Square-headed door openings with lintels, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors. (iii) Detached three-bay two-storey outbuilding with elliptical-headed carriageway to ground floor, and single-bay single-storey wing to right. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rubble stone eaves. Random rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with lintels, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled fittings. Square-headed door openings (one to first floor approached by flight of eight steps having iron railing) with lintels, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled doors. Elliptical-headed carriageway to ground floor with squared rubble stone voussoirs, and fittings not visible.