Newlands Farmhouse And Adjoining Cottages Boundary Walls And Railings

This is a mid-18th century farmhouse with adjoining cottages, subsequently altered in the early 19th century and again in the mid-19th century. It is now used as a house and cottages, and incorporates boundary walls and railings. The building is constructed of coursed squared stone, partly rendered, with ashlar dressings and a slate roof. There are three ridge stacks and two gable stacks, coped with stone. The plan is in a rough L-shape.

The exterior features coped gables. The main two-storey block has a seven-window front. Most windows are 16-pane glazing bar sashes. The house section has two sashes on the upper floor, with a lower floor sash to the right. A canted flat-roofed wooden porch with glazed sides covers a nine-panel door with an overlight. To the right is a lower, rendered section with two 16-pane sashes on the upper floor and an eight-pane sash below. To the right again are rendered cottages, featuring three sashes on the upper floor and three similar sashes on the lower floor. The central window on the lower floor is flanked by half-glazed six-panel doors, both with plain stone surrounds, the left door having a cornice. A left wing, originally a ballroom, has a brick gable stack. The central entrance has a six-panel door flanked by tall 12-pane sashes. To the left is a single-storey outbuilding, now a garage, with a brick gable stack. The interior was not inspected.

Outside the cottages is a low stone boundary wall with chamfered coping and a wrought-iron railing, along with two pairs of square stone gate piers and a single wrought-iron gate. Dividing walls separate the house and the cottages; one is brick, the other is stone. A higher wall with flat coping, incorporating a toilet, runs to the right. A stone retaining wall with half-round coping and two square gate piers runs alongside the boundary wall, adjacent to the garage.