Buteland Farm

Buteland Farm

This is a Grade B farm complex dating from the early 19th century, with the main cottage block built around 1840 and further additions and alterations made subsequently. The farm comprises an L-plan cottage joined to a quadrangular-plan carriage block and cattle court with attached parallel rectangular-plan cattle sheds. To the west of the main site stands a separate L-plan cartshed and granary, along with stables and a horsemill.

East Range

The cottage with quadrangular-plan cattle court and cattle sheds consists of a circa 1830s L-plan cottage block connected to an earlier 19th-century former cartshed and granary block, which forms the east side of the cattle court. Behind the court to the north stand two large parallel cattle sheds. The cottage is built of stugged, squared and snecked sandstone with polished stone margins and dressings, and has raised cills at the cottage range. The farm buildings are constructed of rubble with harl pointing and droved dressings.

The east elevation shows a cottage of three symmetrical bays with a modern flat-roofed addition to the outer right. The centre has a modern door with a three-pane fanlight, flanked by windows.

The south elevation features a broad gable with asymmetrically disposed windows: two narrow windows at ground level slightly off-centre to the left, and a window off-centre to the left at the gable head. A recessed three-bay cottage jamb stands to the left. A square, flat-roofed porch with a blocking course contains a plain ashlar door surround, a two-leaf boarded door, and a five-pane fanlight. Two bays to the left include a uPVC window at the penultimate bay.

The coach house is a long, rectangular-plan range advanced to the east. Three low segmental-headed arches are grouped to the right, centre, and outer left, now mostly blocked. The inner arch contains a two-leaf boarded door.

The roofs are of grey slate with tall coped and corniced ridge stacks at the cottages; the coach house has a corrugated roof.

The quadrangular-plan cattle court is built of rubble with harl pointing and droved ashlar margins.

The south range comprises a four-bay stable with a narrow door to the outer left, a window, a broad boarded door, and a window.

The west range consists of two bays with six-pane windows.

The north range is asymmetrical, comprising two blocks: a three-bay block to the left and a slightly lower four-bay block to the right that includes a bothy and entrance to the cattle sheds. Various openings show later alterations. A raised mutual skew divides the two blocks. The left block has a triangular pediment breaking the eaves over a door to the outer left, a window to the right, and a broad door to the outer right. The right block shows a window blocked as a smaller window, and a broad door raised by brick additions that break the eaves. A two-bay bothy to the outer right has a narrow door and window with a coped ashlar ridge stack.

The east range features a broad blocked door to the outer left, a broad door to the outer right, and a small blocked opening at the centre.

The roofs are of grey slate with lead flashings, roof lights, and a round terracotta pipe ventilation on the south elevation to the road.

The cattle sheds are two parallel rectangular-plan rubble-built structures to the north of the court, accessed from both the court and the east. They retain wooden hay hecks and cobbles, though some alterations have been made. They have grey slate piend roofs with lead flashings.

Cartshed, Granary, Implement Shed and Horsemill

The T-plan cartshed and granary block stands to the west of the cattle court, with an implement shed against the north wall and a horsemill attached to the north wall. All are built of rubble with partial harl, droved ashlar margins and dressings.

The cartshed and granary's east range has three segmental-headed cart arches with square openings above. A new corrugated roof infills the area to form a covered cattle court.

The south elevation shows a broad block gable with a wall to the outer right enclosing the new cattle court area. A jamb is recessed to the left, with a boarded door at ground level and a blocked hoist door above, topped by a triangular pediment breaking the eaves.

The west elevation displays a broad gable with windows at the centre; the first-floor window is blocked.

The north range forms a long wall shared with the lean-to implement shed and horsemill.

The implement shed is a lean-to structure with a pantiled roof (partially collapsed) and rubble end walls.

The horsemill is a rectangular-plan structure diagonally aligned against the north wall, built of rubble with stugged margins and dressings. It has a broad door at the northwest and a blocked door at the northeast. The interior timber horsemill roof construction remains, but no gearing or fittings survive; it is now used as a store. The roof is of grey slate with a piend profile and stone ridges.