Haugh Farmhouse

Dating from the early 19th century, Haugh is an agricultural settlement comprising a farmhouse and an associated steading. These buildings are close to the roadside of the A89 Glasgow to Newbridge road between Newbridge and Broxburn.

The Farmhouse

Haugh farmhouse is a detached, two-storey, gabled, irregular-plan farmhouse with pedimented dormers breaking the roof eaves and a gableted entrance porch. Dating from the early 19th century, it is constructed in coursed and snecked tooled stone to the entrance elevation and a mixture of coursed, snecked and stugged rubble and tooled stone elsewhere. There are tooled window margins, some with Tudor-style hoodmoulds above, and long and short quoins.

The entrance (northeast) elevation of Haugh farmhouse has a gable to the left facing the driveway. It has a tripartite window with stone mullions at ground floor level and two rectangular window openings above. The stone porch has a moulded blank square plaque above a rectangular window opening and a timber-panelled entrance door.

The side (northwest) elevation of the farmhouse has a canted bay window and a link section to the west that is lower in height and which adjoins a late 19th century section of the house. The side (southeast) elevation has three pedimented dormer windows breaking the roof eaves and a projecting section of corbel table between the ground and first floor level. The rear (southwest) elevation has a mono-pitched rear entrance.

Haugh farmhouse has a mixture of window designs. These are predominantly two-pane and 12-pane glazing patterns in timber sash and case frames. The remaining windows are smaller with multi-pane glazing. There is a rooflight in the mono-pitched rear entrance and a glazed roof lantern lighting the main stairwell underneath. The roof is slated with predominantly straight skews, moulded skewputts and there are some crowstepped gables on the southwest elevation. The farmhouse has ridge and end chimneystacks, some have corbelling.

The interior of the farmhouse, seen in 2021, has some 19th century features, such as fire surrounds, deep timber skirting, timber window shutters and moulded cornicing in the principal rooms. The staircase has iron balusters and a curved, timber handrail. At the first floor landing, the staircase divides into two to access the front and back sections of the house. The western part of the house is stylistically plainer than the remainder of the house, suggesting this may have been service accommodation. This part has its own internal staircase and is close to the rear entrance door and attached walled garden.

The Steading

Haugh steading is a large, early 19th century agricultural steading to the northwest of Haugh farmhouse. The steading is laid out in a roughly E-shaped, courtyard plan and is constructed in snecked and stugged rubble stone, some of which is harl-pointed. The steading buildings are predominantly single-storey but with some taller ranges. These include the former granary with its hayloft window and the stable block with former accommodation space above. There is a detached building fronting the main road which relates to the former stackyard and is enclosed by rubble walls.

The main entrance into the courtyard is from the south and it is flanked by arched openings with chamfered reveals, the one on the left has been infilled to form a window opening and is now part of a dwelling (Haugh Steading Cottage). Within the courtyard, the stable block is on the western side and includes large, arched openings with timber stable doors. There are square window openings above with stone cills and lintels and partial timber window frames with multi-pane glazing. The eastern side of the courtyard comprises a single-storey range with a cartshed opening and other window and door openings in various sizes, all with tooled cills and lintels. There is a pend leading from the courtyard into the northeastern part of the steading.

The northern section of the steading comprises a rectangular-plan range running east to west and a number of single-storey, rectangular-plan buildings, one with a chimneystack and roof ventilator. The eastern range has a cartshed opening and a bipartite window with a stone mullion. This section is partially roofless with some exposed roof timbers and a corrugated iron canopy covers the southeastern corner of the steading (this later canopy is excluded from the listing).

The windows are a mixture of timber and iron frames in a variety of glazing patterns. The roofs are covered variously in red pantiles and slates and the gables are crowstepped throughout with moulded skewputts. The roof of the former stackyard building is covered in corrugated iron. There are metal rainwater goods throughout.

The interior of the steading was partially seen in 2021. The ranges surrounding the courtyard largely remain in use, these include stables with plain rubble-walled compartments and the former threshing barn which connects internally with the stables and former worker's accommodation above. The interior of Haugh Steading Cottage was not seen.

Setting and Landscape

The farmhouse and steading are accessed by separate driveways. Rubble walls with rounded coping and plain, squared gatepiers separate the farmhouse from the steading.

There is a paddock directly north of the farmhouse and a large walled kitchen garden to the south with rubble walls and rounded coping. The ground in and around the steading is partially concreted and partially cobbled.

In accordance with Section 1 (4A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 the following are excluded from the listing: corrugated iron shed to west of steading, byre and shed range to south of steading, three-bay building to east of steading, 20th century canopy over southeast corner of steading and garage to southwest of farmhouse.

Historical Development

Haugh is an agricultural settlement dating from the 18th century. Haugh farm was part of the tenanted farm holdings of the Newliston estate owned by the Hog family of Newliston. Haugh is labelled on Elphinstone's map of the Lothians of 1744 however the design and form of Haugh farmhouse and steading today indicates an early 19th century date. The detached farmhouse and roughly E-shaped, courtyard plan form of the steading is indicative of farm design of the late 18th and early 19th century Improvement period.

Haugh is first shown in detail on the 1st Edition Ordnance Survey map of 1855 and comprises a farmhouse, a large steading complex and outbuildings close to the roadside. The farmhouse is shown on this map as an irregular-plan building with a walled garden immediately south of the house. The area immediately surrounding the house is planted with trees, visually separating the steading from the farmhouse. There are also separate entrance driveways to both the farmhouse and steading.

The Ordnance Survey Name Book, written between 1855 and 1859, describes Haugh as a large, two-storey farmhouse with extensive offices, garden, small lawn and a large arable farm attached with a threshing machine. In the 1850s the farm was owned by James Hog of Newliston and had been occupied by James Hunter the tenant farmer of "Newliston Haugh" since around 1828 (Edinburgh Evening Courant).

The 2nd Edition Ordnance Survey map of 1895 shows the footprint of both the farmhouse and steading remain largely the same as that shown on the 1st Edition map. By 1895 the rear (west) elevation of the farmhouse had been extended slightly to increase the service accommodation. A detached, rectangular-plan byre was added south of the steading sometime between 1855 and 1895 and a rectangular-plan range was added to the western section of the steading complex. A section of the enclosed, eastern part of the steading appears to have been partially covered or roofed and a small, detached byre to the northwest was removed around this time.

Sometime between 1895 and 1913 a rectangular-plan building was added east of the steading on the opposite side of the track running north to south between the steading and farmhouse (as shown on the Ordnance Survey map of 1913). A large, detached, agricultural shed was built sometime in the mid-20th century (shown on the Ordnance Survey map of 1963) and a brick-built, double garage was built to the west of the farmhouse sometime after 1963 (these structures are excluded from the listing).

The farmhouse is occupied, and the central and western sections of the steading complex are currently used as stabling for horses and storage (2021). The eastern sections of the steading are largely disused and some of the buildings are only partially roofed. Aerial photographs taken in 1981 show the whole steading as roofed, dating the loss of roof fabric and some of the interiors in the eastern sections of the steading to sometime after this date (Canmore).