Farm Buildings About 25 Metres East Of The Calf House At Lithiack

This is a farm building, including a stable that may have been used for living accommodation, with a pigeon loft and an enclosed yard attached. It dates from the early 18th century and has undergone later alterations. The structure is built of slatestone rubble and features a slate roof with gable ends and ridge tiles, including some handmade crested ridge tiles.

The central stable building has a two-room plan with an open loft above, heated by a brick stack at the left gable end, which suggests it may have served as living space. A dovecote is attached to the right, and to the left is an enclosed yard measuring about 6 metres by 10 metres, which appears to be constructed in the same style as the stable.

The exterior of the stable is two storeys high, featuring two doorways with cambered arches and two 2-light casement windows on the first floor. At the rear, there is a central loading door for the loft and two blocked single lights along with one open single light at ground level. The dovecote, attached at a lower roof level, has a gable end with rows of square pigeon holes at the upper level and a doorway with a cambered head below. The rear of the dovecote also has four rows of square pigeonholes.

The enclosed yard is defined by walls with a parapet that ramp up to a central shouldered pedimental feature above a round-arched doorway, flanked by circular bull's eyes on either side. The walls ramp up at the corners, and the rear of the yard mirrors the front, with four bull's eyes and a similar central pedimental feature on the left side. This design represents an unusual architectural treatment for a farmyard.