Ireton Farmhouse And Attached Outbuildings

Ireton Farmhouse and attached outbuildings is a farmhouse and associated stabling and cowsheds built around 1813-1815. It may have been based on a design from around 1760 by Robert Adam. The building is constructed of red brick, with some areas rendered and painted. It has plain tile and Welsh slate roofs, including a stone-coped gable with plain kneelers on the west end of the north range. The roof features one brick ridge stack and one gable stack, and a dentil eaves cornice.

The farmhouse is arranged in an L-shape. The north block comprises two attached parallel ranges, with the farmhouse itself located in the east part. The rear range is taller and likely dates to an earlier period. The inner range is rendered and painted, with a hipped roof of Welsh slate. The south elevation has a five-bay, pedimented central section flanked by two other bays, for a total of nine bays. It is marked by pilaster strips, and the ground floor features a regular arrangement of round-arched doorways and windows. The windows are slightly recessed to resemble a continuous arcade. The windows are casement types, and the doorways have plank doors. There are twelve oval windows in the upper section, most of which are blind. The north elevation has round-arched doorways and windows on the ground floor, and segment-headed windows above, with mostly two-light windows beneath the eaves.

The west range features a centre three-bay block with single-bay pavilions linked by lower ranges. The central range includes three giant round arches, with a continuous stone impost band and a brick dentil cornice. Blind circular windows are positioned in the inner spandrels of these arches; within each arch are two tiers of openings with plank double doors. The west side has two windows. The end pavilions, with pyramid roofs, feature similar architectural details. The northern pavilion has an open cart entrance and a square turret with a weather vane. Linking ranges to the west have two windows each, and various openings to the east which have been slightly altered and abutted by 20th-century farm buildings. A square turret is also present on the range to the south. Unpublished information from Mr Leslie Harris, Kedleston Archives, provides further details.