Linked Farmbuildings North East Of Bellister Castle

The linked farm buildings located northeast of Bellister Castle are now used as loose boxes and storage. They date from the late 18th century and 19th century and consist of several constructions. The buildings are made of coursed, squared, and dressed sandstone with concrete-tiled roofs and stone chimneys. They form a U-shaped arrangement around a farmyard, featuring a threshing barn and gin-gang at the rear, along with a combined cottage and coach house positioned at right angles to the threshing barn.

The U-plan range, built in the late 18th to early 19th century, includes a two-storey north section made up of two builds. It features two segmental arches, boarded doors, and first-floor hit-and-miss windows facing the yard. The roof is hipped above the junction with the south section, which has a stone stairway on the outer return. The mid to late 19th-century south range is a single-storey L-plan, also consisting of two builds, with two elliptical arches, boarded doors, and breathers facing the yard, as well as latticed casements on the outer return and a hipped roof.

The early 19th-century threshing barn is a long two-storey structure with three end bays, which were converted into a cottage in the late 19th century. This barn features replaced casements, a door, and an end stack. The early to mid-19th-century gin-gang is a large square-plan building with altered and blocked openings and a pitched roof. The coach house incorporates one bay of the cottage at the junction with the former threshing barn, showcasing a segmental archway and a breather in the form of a cross-loop within a crow-stepped, gabled front. It also has a two-light mullioned window and a similar gabled half-dormer on the west return, with a roof that includes a central ridge stack. A detached shed in the farmyard and a haybarn to the north are not of special interest. These linked buildings are included for their group value.