Farm Building Attached To Number 4

This building is a farm structure attached to number 4, consisting of three farm cottages and a cart shed, built in 1858 for Sir Matthew White Ridley. It features coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and quoins, topped with a Welsh slate roof that has stone gable copings and roll-moulded stone-coloured ridge tiles. The building is two storeys high, with each house comprising three bays. Central half-glazed doors with glazing bars are flanked by wide sash windows. Sash windows are also present in the first and third bays of each house, with the outer and central two bays breaking the eaves under half-gabled dormers that have overhanging hipped roofs. The eaves are supported by corbels, and there are banded ashlar chimneys. The cart shed features round piers supporting five elliptical arches, with projecting stone sills above four blocked-up lights. It also has a boarded pitching hole in the return gable and stone gutter brackets. According to Kelly's directory for 1858, this house and the farm buildings of the model farm were described as the most complete and extensive in Northumberland.