Ferrar Steading

Ferrar Steading is a largely intact 1831-dated steading of a single storey and attic, built in a near-symmetrical U-plan. It is constructed of coursed pink and grey granite with long and short quoins and dressings, and features boarded timber doors and openings.

The east elevation is asymmetrical with five bays, featuring irregularly placed openings to the central three bays, a window to the outer left bay, and a double opening to the outer right bay. A gabled return features a doorway on the ground floor and stone steps leading to an attic floor doorway with a datestone reading "1831", along with a stone cheesepress and a square opening in the gablehead. The north elevation is asymmetrical with irregularly placed openings. The west elevation, also with five bays, has three basket-arched former cartshed openings at ground floor level, fitted with flat timber doors, a timber door to the ground floor of the outer left bay, a piend-roofed boarded timber door breaking the eaves of the outer right bay’s attic floor, and regularly placed boarded openings to the remaining four bays of the attic floor. A gabled return has a doorway on the ground floor, with stone steps ascending to a timber doorway in the centre of the attic floor.

The courtyard’s east elevation displays asymmetrical placement of openings on the ground floor, with regularly spaced ones on the attic floor. The south elevation features a central basket-arched opening flanked by two infilled basket-arched openings, alongside irregularly placed door and window openings on the ground floor and regularly placed openings on the attic floor, with irregularly placed two-pane skylights. The west elevation is near-symmetrical with five ground floor doors and regularly placed two-pane skylights in the attic floor.

The majority of windows are boarded timber. The roof is grey slate with a stone ridge, along with stone skews and blocked skewputs. Cast-iron rainwater goods are present.

Internally, some original troughs and stalls remain, although the remainder were not visible during a 1998 inspection.

An ancillary structure, single-storey, three-bay and rectangular, is located to the south of the courtyard. This has two boarded timber doors to the south, flanked to the left by an infilled doorway, two square openings to the north, and a square opening in the east gable. It also features a grey slate roof with a stone ridge, stone skews with blocked skewputs, and cast-iron rainwater goods, some of which are missing.

An enclosure of rectangular plan, built with dry stone walls and rubble coping, is located to the east of the steading, with a gateway in the centre of the west wall.