Tofts Farm: Building North West Of Farmhouse

This is a mid-19th century stable, byre, cartshed and foldyard complex, altered in the 20th century. It is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with herringbone tooling, with pantile roofs featuring stone ridges and gable copings. One shed roof has been renewed in corrugated metal, and another in Welsh slate.

The building consists of a single-story, 16-bay section arranged 6:3:2:1:4, with a further one-story, four-bay extension set back on the right. The 6-bay section has boarded doors in the second and fifth bays, each beneath a flat stone lintel. Sash windows with glazing bars and hit-and-miss ventilators are also present, with projecting stone sills. The 3-bay section features a wide gable over three boarded doors, also with flat stone lintels, and a wide fixed light with glazing bars in the gable peak. To the right, the foldyard is defined by high stone piers. The left bay contains a boarded door and lower boarded double doors protected by a horizontal plank shutter. The right bay has a stone wall approximately 1.5 meters high, continuing through to the adjacent bay, which showcases a gabled end of a long shed and a single boarded door under a flat stone lintel. The set-back range to the right includes 20th-century garage doors under a wood lintel, a single boarded door, and a light with top glazing bars and lower boarding.

The roofs are generally pantiled, with the first section (over the stables) being hipped and featuring a brick chimney rising from the stone eaves. A second, tiered hipped roof rises on posts behind the main roof, providing a ventilating strip, partly boarded. The 3-bay section has a gabled roof renewed in corrugated metal, with ashlar gable copings. The foldyard roof mirrors this tiered hipped construction with stone piers. The single bay has a pantiled roof, and the set-back range has a Welsh slate roof at a lower pitch than the gables. An end stone chimney is present on the right. The interior was not inspected.

The farm likely served the expanding market created by the nearby ironstone mines developed by the Pease family in the mid-19th century, representing an unusually complete example of a developed farm.