Ash Cleugh Farmhouse

Ash Cleugh Farmhouse is likely a bastle house dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century, with remodels in the late 17th century and again in the second quarter of the 19th century. The building is constructed of rubble with stone dressings and has a stone slate roof. It is two storeys high and consists of three bays. The central entrance features a boarded door with an overlight, set within a moulded Tudor-arched surround that has a hoodmould. This door is flanked by tall three-light mullioned windows, which also have hoodmoulds, although some of the mullions have been removed. On the first floor, there are two-light windows on either side of a single light, all in a similar style. Each window is accompanied by a small rectangular chamfered opening located to the right or left of the window head. Some of the stone dressings, including the hoodmoulds, window sills, and doorhead, appear to be genuine 17th-century work that has been re-set during the 19th-century remodelling of the facade. The building features coped gables. The left return has a large projecting stepped stack from the 17th century, which supports a 19th-century corniced stone chimney. The right return has a blocked bastle door that is square-headed with heavy dressings, along with a 19th-century corniced stone stack on the gable above earlier corbels. The rear outshut contains a boarded door in a stop-chamfered surround and windows similar to those at the front. Inside, there is an 18th-century ground-floor fireplace with a chamfered surround, set within a 17th-century predecessor that has a segmental arch partly cut away. The building also features a stone stair in the outshut and two principal-rafter roof trusses with collars. At the time of the survey, the farmhouse was being used as a barn.