Sunniside Farmhouse And Adjoining Farm Buildings

Sunniside Farmhouse and adjoining farm buildings are a Grade II listed farmhouse with byres and lofts, dated 1766 for I.W. The structure is built from roughly-coursed and squared sandstone with quoins, while the byres and lofts are made of rubble sandstone. The roofs are stone-flagged, except for a renewed roof on the central lower bay. The building has a linear plan.

The farmhouse has two storeys, featuring two wide bays and a lower one-bay section to the right. The byres and lofts also have two storeys and two wide bays, with an additional one-storey, one-bay pent extension on the left. In total, there are six bays. The pent extension includes boarded vehicle doors and pigeon holes in the peak. The house features a two-panelled door on the left side of the lower section, framed by a plain stone surround with an inscribed lintel. The first two bays have three-light windows with flat-fronted mullions that are splayed on the inside, while to the right of the door is a window with three over three lights. The farm buildings to the right have two boarded doors and one small square window on the ground floor, with side stone steps leading to boarded loft doors under stone lintels. The rear of the farmhouse has a stair window with three over three lights, where two over two belong to the stairwell; the third light has vertical diagonally-set iron bars. There is a projecting bow-shaped oven to the left of this window and a catslide roof over the stair wing.

Inside, the lower two-storey section may have originally served as a hall, now with an inserted floor and side stone steps at the rear. The main room to the left of the door features a heck-post. The rear stair is a close-string design with splat balusters that are cut to imitate twists. Both rooms and cupboards have doors with four fielded panels.