The Peel With Attached Cartshed

The Peel, with an attached cartshed, is a bastle house dating from the 16th century or early 17th century, with alterations made in 1863. The building is constructed from large irregular rubble with cut dressings and heavy roughly-shaped quoins, while the cartshed is made of rubble with tooled dressings. It features a Welsh slate roof and 20th-century white brick stacks. The structure has a rectangular plan measuring 12.2 by 7.1 metres externally, with walls that are 1.50 metres thick.

The south elevation has three storeys and two irregular bays. The ground-floor windows, added in 1863, have rough-faced lintels and sills. There is a blocked slit between the windows and traces of a blocked opening on the far left. The first-floor windows are framed in 18th-century tooled block surrounds, while the second floor has three small windows, the central one featuring an old chamfered surround with bar holes. All windows have been replaced with 20th-century four-pane casements. The gables are coped with stepped end stacks.

The west end of the building shows traces of a blocked first-floor window under a relieving arch, and a chamfered second-floor loop. The east end, now an internal wall, has a central blocked byre entrance with rounded arrises to the jambs and lintel, and a relieving arch above. There is a first-floor doorway above and to the right, which has similar jambs and a later head. The north elevation features an original chamfered loop with bar holes in the centre and a small window, likely a modification of an original loop, on the right.

The attached cartshed has a hipped roof with a boarded door and double doors on the right return. Inside, the ground floor has a tall round-arched barrel vault, with an original ladder hole near the southeast corner and a central cut-away section for a 19th-century stair.

The Peel is a well-preserved bastle house that has been carefully restored in recent years. It was formerly known as West Farmhouse. A late 20th-century extension to the east is not of special interest.