Eastwood Manor Farm Steading

Eastwood Manor Farm Steading is a steading built between 1858 and 1860 by Robert Smith for William Taylor. The main facade features dressed, squared, and coursed limestone, while the side walls are made of coarser squared stone. The building has rusticated ashlar quoins, ashlar cornices, and copings, with rubbed brick voussoirs over the arched entrances. The roof is made of corrugated iron and translucent plastic, with some glazing. The site covers 1.25 acres and contains two internal courts, all of which are roofed.

The main facade is a grand five-bay composition. The centerpiece has projecting double steps leading to a segmental arched recess adorned with quatrefoil motifs set in lozenge surrounds. There is a central doorway at the top of the steps with a plank door, flanked by two upper openings on either side of the lozenge-quatrefoil opening. The side walls slope up to a series of four crow steps, leading to a gable that features a relieving arch and a keyed oculus, topped with a weather vane.

The sections flanking the centerpiece are set on three-bay segmental-headed arcades, illuminated above by glazed arched gables resembling train sheds. The end bays contain two cambered head openings, lozenge-quatrefoils, and gable head openings, all finished with corn sheaf finials. Throughout the building, there are two-leaf plank doors.

Inside, cast iron pillars support brick walls, and there is a cast iron open rafter wagon roof. Inspection galleries are present on four sides, and a cast iron fountain sits on a stone plinth in the left-hand court.