Walled Garden, House Of Aquahorthies

Early 19th century improved farm steading to N of house including 5 original farm buildings of squared granite rubble with slated roofs and timber louvered and boarded openings.

2 SYMMETRICAL BYRE RANGES: enclosing cattle court: single storey, with single-bay returns to E; squared brown granite rubble with pinnings, slate roofs; southern-most range attached to N wall of walled garden; 2-storey (on sloping site) THRESHING MILL BLOCK apparently a late 19th century addition (after OS map for 1867), attached at right angles to N byre range to W, slated roof replaced by corrugated asbestos sheeting, cast-iron water wheel in wheel-pit contained within outshot to left on W elevation, threshing machine and cobbled floor inside.

DETACHED GRANARY BLOCK TO W: single storey and loft; rubble built with dressed quoins; asymmetrical openings regularly spaced to S elevation, door and altered window below; 2 loft openings to right on E gable. Pitched slated roof, small skylights.

S STABLE BLOCK: attached to W wall of walled garden; squared rubble; pitched slated roof; skewed gable ends rising above E and W elevation wallheads; 2-cell; variety of openings; blocked hayloft opening on N gable, flanked by single louvered square loft openings; 3 doors and 1 window on W elevation, originally 4 doors, one of centre doors altered as window; jerkin-headed dormer-headed loft window over centre; lean-to attached to S gable, which has 2 small 4-paned windows widely spaced at loft/attic above, and wider, blocked centre window, skewputt to left inscribed "GH" (?Bishop George Hay).

Cobbled floor insode, with original wooden trevises and centre drain. To SW pair single-storey farm workers COTTAGES (NETHERMAINS OF AQUAHORTHIES), 2 and 3 bays, squared pink granite rubble, skews and cornoced stacks. E cottage with slated roof and cant-fronted dormers, W cottage roof;ess (1992).

WALLED GARDEN; from 1811, field rubble with ashlar cope; pair of early 19th century ball-finialled gatepiers on track towards steading at SW corner of walled garden.