Haggs Farm, Long Dalmahoy Road

Haggs Farm, Long Dalmahoy Road

A late 18th-century farmhouse of 2 storeys arranged in an L-plan with 3 bays, extended probably in the mid-19th century by a broad bay to the north-northwest, creating a 4-bay frontage. The house is constructed of rubble with harled pointing, ashlar margins, and ashlar quoins. Windows are positioned directly under the eaves. A quadrangular steading stands adjacent to the rear of the house, contemporary with later minor additions and alterations.

The main east elevation presents 4 bays with a single-storey 5th bay to the outer right. A later stone porch with a piend and platform roof occupies the 2nd bay from the left, with a modern door in the left return and a window at the east side. A window sits above at first floor level, with windows symmetrically arranged in the flanking bay. Between the 3rd bay and the outer right addition sits a broad blank wall space. The addition has a bipartite window at ground level and a single window at first floor. A single-storey, pantiled-roof bay projects to the outer right with a bipartite window.

The rear west elevation shows the original 3-bay house to the centre and right, with a stair window at the centre. A gabled single-storey projection with a door at the centre of its left return obscures the bay to the outer right. A harled lean-to sits in the re-entrant angle. Windows appear on each floor of the left bay of the original house and one ground-floor window serves the additional bay. The outer left is clasped by the north range of the steading, now converted to dwelling space. This range is a long, rectangular-plan rubble building with circular ventilation holes at its base, formerly a cattle shed. Modern French doors occupy the centre and outer right. The pantiled roof carries a slate easing course with slate above the outer right door. A lower 2-bay former bothy, recessed to the left, features a broad door to the right and a narrow window to the left, also part of the steading.

The south elevation presents a gable to the outer right with a single-storey jamb to its left and a 12-pane sash-and-case window to the right of the jamb.

Windows throughout are 4-pane sash-and-case. The roof is of grey slate with rendered, coped apex and ridge stacks, thack stanes, and ashlar coping to the skews. The interior was not inspected in 1992.

Rubble garden walls with harled pointing and semi-circular coping enclose the garden area in front of the house.

The steading materials match those of the main building. Its quadrangular plan sits at the rear of the house and is now attached at the northeast corner, built of rubble with ashlar dressings.

The south range contains a broad cart-door to the outer left, now with an infill door. A 3-bay implement shed is supported on cast-iron columns, with the end bay now enclosed by wire fencing. Two boarded doors are symmetrically placed in the bays to the right, and a blocked window sits immediately to the left of the outer right door.

The west range comprises a long rectangular-plan cart-shed and granary. The outer left bay features a shallow segmental cart-arch with a 2-leaf boarded door. A lean-to shelter of corrugated sheeting on wooden posts stands in front of 2 bays to the right of the cart-arch, with a door and small window to the right. A door with windows in the 2 outer bays serves the granary, which has windows below the eaves; blank wall space fills the outer right section.

The north range is a long rectangular-plan former bothy and cattle shed, with the cattle-shed now converted to form part of the main house.

A free-standing rubble-built outbuilding stands to the north of the north range, parallel to it, with its north elevation facing the farm laneway.

The steading and bothy have pantiled roofs with slate eaves easing courses, while the remaining farm buildings carry plain pantiles.