Blacketlees

Indistinct datestone, apparently 1806 or 1808. 2-storey 3-bay

farmhouse with detached courtyard steading to N with apsidal

horsemill.

House: S elevation: droved red ashlar (other elevations

coursed rubble) with polished dressings and rusticated

quoins. Pedimented and architraved central doorway with

swagged frieze, date in tympanum; recessed 9-panelled door

with decorative fanlight; sash windows with 4-pane glazing;

band course at base and between floors, eaves/lintel band and

cornice; straight skews; end stacks, slate roof. Central rear

door below stair window.

Steading: Some 18th century buildings incorporated, but

present form presumably largely contemporary with house.

Essentially 4 ranges built around open courtyard, latter

entered from NW corner through (ashlar) flat-arched

overthrow. Red rubble with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs. W

range (possibly built second half of 18th century) a fine

2-storey barn with 2 tiers slit ventilators to both

elevations (some now blocked), keystoned and basket-arched

large barn doors to flanks, similarly detailed cart entrance

to court at S end, 2 W-facing cart-arches inserted; horsemill

to NW. Plainer E range also 2-storeys and built in at least

2 phases; low S range clasps corners of adjoining ranges and

has pedestrian pend to house. Slate roofs.