Arallas Farmhouse

ST ENODER SW 85 SE 14/290 Arallas Farmhouse - II

Farmhouse. C18, with addition of circa mid C19 and some later alterations and additions. Stone rubble, partly slate-hung. Slate roof with ridge tiles, gable end to left, hipped end to right. Axial stacks with brick shafts. The C19 addition is in stuccoed stone rubble; hipped slate roof with ridge tiles and stacks to sides with rendered shafts. Plan: The main range appears to be a pair of small 2-room plan houses, probably of C18, with a kitchen wing of one-room plan to rear right. In circa mid C19, a large addition of one-room plan with a stairhall was made at the right end, with a porch forming a separate entrance to rear right. The addition has its own stair along the rear, with one large room to the front heated from a stack at the right side. Exterior: The main range is 2-storey, with 2 bays in stone rubble to left and 3 bays, slate-hung, to right. The 2 bays to left have two C19 12-pane sashes with granite lintels at ground and first floors. The 3 bays to right have two 16-pane sashes at ground floor and three 16-pane sashes at first floor, all of C19. The end block, to right of C19, is taller and slightly advance, this is 2-storey, on plinth, with 2 canted bays rising through 2 storeys, each bay with 4-pane sashes and sidelights at ground and first floor. The left end is blind. The right side of the C19 addition has a 4-pane light at ground floor and a large C19 12-pane sash lighting the stair. In the angle to the main range there is a C19 porch with hipped roof, with half-glazed C19 door. Set back to right is the 2-storey rear wing; this is rendered, with C19 16-pane sash at ground floor and two similar 16-pane sashes at first floor. There is a lean-to to right of single storey with loft over, with 2-light window at ground floor and 16- pane sash above. At the rear, the end house to right has a brick porch to right and blocked door to left with single light; C19 16-pane sash in exposed box at first floor. Single storey attached outhouse to end right. The rear of the middle range has rag-slate-hanging; 2-light 2-pane C19 casement at ground floor to left, C19 16- pane sash to right and central C20 door. Two C19 16-pane sashes at first floor. The rear wing has a single storey and loft lean-to as a dairy, with 2-light casement at ground floor and 16-pane sash at first floor, both with brick segmental arches. The rear of the lean-to has a door to the dairy. Interior: Not inspected.

Listing NGR: SW8818953982