Cattle Court, Tealing Home Farm

Cattle Court, Tealing Home Farm

Tealing Home Farm comprises a complex of farm buildings of varying dates, arranged as a single and 2-storey steading. The main components are an extended U-plan stable and cattle courts, and an L-plan mill range.

The stable court's west range dates to the early 18th century, possibly incorporating parts from around 1600. Byres and a cattle court were attached to the west in the later 19th century. The south mill range dates to the later 18th century, with a linking section to the mill dated 1814 and a mid-19th century L-plan addition to the mill that forms an open court, which was enclosed in the later 19th century. The buildings are constructed of coursed, snecked and random rubble, some stugged, with slate and bitumen tile roofing, and shivers at the stable court.

The stable court's west range contains an east elevation facing the courtyard that includes what was probably the original farmhouse and steading, converted to stable and coach house in 1826. Features include a blocked doorway with chamfered margins from around 1600 at the far right, a door with fanlight at the left, and paired depressed keystoned carriage archways at the far left with doors. The west elevation is mostly masked by cattle courts but shows a door from a cut-down window, further doors, and a blocked window at the outer right, with a sculpted mask visible at the northwest corner. The south gable is blank with stone finials and coped skews, and a later low timber projection.

The east range has a door with chamfered margins on its west elevation at the left, a 12-pane lying-pane sash and case window at the right with droved margins, and 3 depressed carriage archways with doors at the far right. The east elevation features a moulded wallhead stack at the centre, a window at the left, and 2 windows at the right. Evidence of a recently removed (1990) small central projection is visible. The south gable has a pointed arched window at the centre with Y-glazing pattern, though most astragals have been removed. Coped skews with a finial at the west range terminate the gable.

The north range has 2 doors and 3 windows symmetrically placed on its south elevation. The rear elevation is blank at the centre, with a blank finialled gable with coped skews at the left and a gable to the original farmhouse at the right with a recent sliding door. Lying-pane glazing patterns are employed throughout.

The cattle court's west elevation includes a byre at the left with a door at the centre and a rounded angle at the far left, with a piended roof and ventilator ridge tiles. The court section at the right is double-piled with double sliding doors at the centre and a single door at the left; piended roofs with open slates and ventilator ridge tiles cover this section. A modern addition projects at the far right and continues along the right return elevation. The south elevation has a projecting section at the right and a large modern addition at the left, covered by an M-piended roof. The north elevation has a door at the left and double sliding doors at the right breaking the wallhead with a catslide roof.

The mill block's south range east elevation is single storey. A door at the centre bears a consecration-type cross marking on the quoin. A 4-bay cartshed with cast-iron columns is followed by double doors with a barred window and further window and door. Piended roofs with ventilator ridge tiles cover this section, with a coped dividing wall at the right bearing a ridge stack. Three symmetrically placed windows occupy the linking section at the far right, with another consecration-type cross marking at an angle quoin in the right re-entrant. The 2-storey mill is slightly recessed at the right. Modern sliding double doors appear at the left with a blocked window above; a depressed arch entrance at the right bears a keystone inscribed '1814 PS JC', with a window at the far right, both now masked by a later addition.

The south range's west elevation features the mill at the centre with a projecting wheel gable containing an intact overshot wheel. A door at the basement level is accompanied by fixed-pane and timber casement windows at ground and first floor levels. The mill race and a depressed arch appear on the left return, with a large bricked aperture on the right return. Two asymmetrically placed windows face the left, and a bay with an arrow slit opening occupies the right. A modern addition appears at the far left, with a window and 3 blocked doors serving a single-storey range at the far right.

The north range is L-plan, with its north elevation masked by a modern addition. The east elevation has modern sliding doors at a gable at the right and doors breaking the eaves in a piended-roof granary above. A single-storey, piended-roof bay occupies the left. The south elevation has a door to a gable at the right marked with a consecration-type cross. Two later bays at the left mask the east elevation of the mill; a depressed-arch entrance and sliding door are covered by an M-piended roof.

An implement shed is sited between the mill block and burn. It is rectangular-plan, open-sided rubble structure with a corrugated metal roof.

Pyramidal-capped gatepiers with margined angles frame the entrance, with a rubble boundary wall adjoining to the north.

The stable court interior retains herringbone-patterned flagstones on the floor of the original farmhouse, converted to stable in 1826. A chimneypiece is partially blocked by a stone drinking trough. Lath and plaster walls and ceiling remain at the coach house (south) end, with a rough-hewn collar and tie beam roof. The east range contains boarded dado in the coach houses and a fitted tack room with original range. The north range has stables with timber trevises and horse-head finialled cast-iron posts (3 extant, 2 missing). The byres retain some stone trevises. In the mill block's south range, a chimney with sway and rough-hewn collar and kingpost roof is visible. A Bamford's patent rapid grinding machine survives in the north range.