Grey Croft Farmhouse With Outbuilding And Farmbuilding Attached

Grey Croft is a farmhouse and former cottage, now serving as an outbuilding, with an attached byre and loft. It likely dates from the early 18th century, with alterations and rebuilding of the byre in 1833, as indicated by a date above the byre door for A. Todd. The 18th-century section features thinly-rendered coursed rubble with millstone grit quoins, a boulder plinth, and ashlar dressings, topped with a stone-flagged roof. The 19th-century part is made of coursed squared sandstone with tooled coarse sandstone dressings and a graduated green slate roof. The building has a longhouse plan and is two storeys high with nine bays.

The two-bay house section has a flat stone lintel over an inserted door on the left, with flat stone lintels and sills, some of which are re-used early 18th-century elements, above late 19th-century sash windows on the right and two above. The former house on the left, now an outbuilding or workshop, retains some quoins near a renewed door on the right, an early 18th-century re-used flat stone lintel and sill for a ground-floor four-pane sash, and a renewed twelve-pane sash above. Its eaves are slightly lower than those of the main house, with details obscured by vegetation.

The five-bay byre on the right features a plain stone surround for a boarded cross-passage door in the first bay, Dutch doors in the second and fourth bays with tooled surrounds and impost blocks, and a similar surround for a first-floor boarded loft door in the third bay, which is partly renewed and partly early 19th-century with carved initials. There are flat stone lintels and slightly projecting stone sills for two fixed lights between the doors. The building has four square ridge chimneys located at the ends of the range and the house.

Inside, the interior shows a blocked byre door and house door in the cross passage, with the house entrance featuring a re-used cruck collar as a lintel. Peg holes are visible, and the owner reports that mortices are now concealed. A bulge in the passage suggests that a house oven is concealed by the wall.