Balruddery Farm

Balruddery Farm is a farmhouse attributed to David Neave, built around 1820. It is a two-storey, rectangular-plan building with three bays and a single-storey projection at the rear. The southern and eastern elevations feature stugged coursers, while the northern and western elevations are made of snecked rubble. The farmhouse has stugged and margined quoins, an ashlar porch, and ashlar architraves, topped with a piended grey slate roof that has an M-gable at the rear. The southern elevation includes a base course, an ashlar lintel course, and a moulded eaves course, while the western elevation has a plain eaves course. The windows are mostly 12-pane sash and case, slightly wider on the southern elevation, with moulded lugged architraves on the ground floor of the southern elevation and ashlar margins with corbelled cills on the first floor. The jambs are stugged and margined elsewhere. The chimney stacks at the ends are coped and shouldered, and there are plain cast-iron rainwater goods.

On the southern elevation, there is a panelled door set deep with a fanlight above, framed by chamfered ashlar jambs. It is sheltered by a pierced flat-roofed porch with a corniced entablature and small antefixae, flanked by windows on either side and three windows on the first floor. The eastern elevation has three windows on the ground floor, with plate glass on the right, and three windows on the first floor, with the centre window blinded. The western elevation features a single-storey, piend-roofed pantry or milk house at the centre, connected to the main house by a later flat-roofed linking bay. It has a plate glass window in the outer bays of the main elevation, with a slightly wider former kitchen window to the right, and an 18-pane border-glazed stair window, along with a window in the outer bays of the first floor.

Inside, the chimneypieces have been removed, but original shutters remain, along with moulded cornices. The first-floor drawing room features a ceiling rose and a foliate cornice, and there is a stone scale and platt staircase with turned balusters, likely added later. The boundary walls surrounding the property are made of rubble.