Fergushill And Adjoining Stables

This is an 18th-century cottage that was significantly enlarged in 1823, 1832, and after 1841 for John Yule, the Land Steward to the Grahams of Netherby. It is constructed of hammer-dressed red sandstone, with later extensions incorporating brick. The roof is covered with graduated and rounded top-slates of green and Welsh slate, featuring lead hips and decorative bargeboards. Ashlar chimney stacks have double cylindrical forms with lozenge and twisted rope decoration.

An 1823 estate plan depicts a single-storey 3-bay extension to the original cottage. This was further extended and dated with a raised stone carved shield in 1832. A projecting gable to the garden front rises to 1½ storeys and has a round-headed mullioned bay window with 3 lights, glazing bars, and a lead hipped roof, accompanied by a pointed dormer with a hood mould. The eaves sweep down and are supported by an arcade of pitch pine columns on three sides, with pointed wooden arches between the eaves and slender wooden rails. A porch on the left side features a Gothic 4-panel door. A two-storey extension to the left was originally partly single-storey and altered after 1841. Two projecting two-storey bay windows have hood moulds to the ground floor with patterned and diamond-paned casements; upper floor dormer windows have plain stone surrounds and single-pane sashes.

The interior of the 1832 section includes carved stone Gothic fireplaces, Gothic panelled doors, and panelled window shutters. The principal room features a moulded plaster cornice, a carved wooden pelmet, and a vertical sliding panelled shutter to the side window. The listing also includes the former stables dating to 1832, which have interior wooden stalls of Gothic design. The building was sympathetically restored to its 1841 condition in 1983.