Steading And Cottage, Garthland Mains With Farmhouse

The site includes an earlier 19th-century farmhouse, a farm cottage, agricultural steading ranges, a bridge, tower, boundary walls, gatepiers, and associated landscape features.

The farmhouse is a 2-storey, 3-bay L-plan building of classical design, with a lean-to timber and glass conservatory on the southwest side. It is constructed of painted rubble with raised quoins. The southwest (entrance) elevation features an advanced porch in the centre, a timber and glass door set into the re-entrant angle to the right, and a single window directly above the door at the first floor. Regular window placement is characteristic of the flanking bays. The southwest side elevation is five bays wide, grouped 4-1, with predominantly regular fenestration. A timber and glass door and a lean-to conservatory project in the outer right bay. The northeast side elevation is also five bays wide, grouped 1-4, with a single window in a slightly advanced bay to the outer left, and a sequence of single and bipartite windows to the remaining bays. The northwest (rear) elevation features a timber door to the outer left, a garage door to the right, and a single window at the first floor to the right. The farmhouse has predominantly 4-pane timber sash and case windows. It is covered by a grey slate piended roof with wallhead, ridge, and gablehead stacks topped with polygonal cans.

To the north of the farmhouse stands a 3-bay, single-storey-and-attic rectangular-plan farm cottage. It is built of whinstone with tooled dressings, and has a central timber and glass entrance door with a letterbox fanlight. Flanking single windows are at ground level, while windows aligned above break the eaves to form gables. The cottage has 4-pane timber sash and case windows and a rooflight. It is roofed with grey slate with stone skews and has gablehead stacks with polygonal cans.

A 21-bay range of agricultural buildings runs along the northeast side, arranged in sections of 5, 6, 6, and 4 bays, with a right-angled section extending from the centre. This range has a mix of single and double doors, windows, and cart openings, along with smaller ranges extending to the east and west.

A low, coped, round-arched whitewashed bridge, now partly incomplete due to field access, is present. Whitewashed coped walls enclose the farmhouse, and square-plan gatepiers with pyramidal caps mark the entrances to the farmhouse and driveway. Decorative iron gates and gatepiers are located on the southwest side, formerly providing access to the house. A site and date stone relating to Garthland Tower stands to the east of the house. The interior of the farmhouse was not inspected in 1999.