Town Tenement Farmhouse Including Farmyard Wall Adjoining To South And Front Railings

Town Tenement Farmhouse, built around 1877 for the Honourable Mark George Kerr Rolle, is a former estate farmhouse. It features local stone rubble with red brick dressings, while the rear block is plastered. The house has stone stacks with original brick chimney shafts and a slate roof with crested ridge tiles. The building is designed in an L-shape, with the main block facing east and consisting of a two-room plan with a central entrance. Each room has rear lateral stacks. A two-room rear kitchen block projects at right angles behind the left room and has an outer lateral stack. The farmhouse is two storeys high.

The exterior has a three-window front that is symmetrically arranged around the front doorway, which features a gabled porch with a Tudor arch doorway made of red brick with limestone imposts and a keystone, housing the original part-glazed plank door. The windows have low segmental arches made of red brick with limestone keystones and contain original 16-pane sash windows. The roof is gable-ended to the right, and the rear block continues to a front gable, both of which have cusped bargeboards.

An original stone rubble wall projects southwards from the right end of the front, enclosing the farmyard and including a gateway with square section gate piers featuring brick quoins and low pyramid caps. The section to the left of the gateway ramps down in the center. In front of the house and farmyard wall, a narrow strip of ground is enclosed by original cast iron railings, which have plain railings and bulbous standards with fleur-de-lys finials. The house gate is in the same style. This farmhouse was part of a Rolle estate village, with the nearby Stevenstone Court, now in ruins, having been rebuilt in 1872-3. The entire village, including the Church of St Giles, was remodeled shortly afterward.