Pollick

Circa 1864, possibly incorporating earlier fabric. Single storey and attic (2-storey to rear) farmhouse on sloping site, forming side of U-plan farm steading with arched, pedimented doorpiece, 9 steps to door and finialed, gabled dormers to front. Roughly dressed sandstone to W (front) elevation of house; sandstone rubble elsewhere; sandstone ashlar dressings. Simple eaves course; raised quoin strips; raised door and window margins.

HOUSE: central 20th century timber panelled door to W (principle) elevation recessed in roll-moulded, depressed-arch architrave with dropped keystone, moulded spandrels and pediment; 9 stone steps to door; corniced bipartite windows at ground floor to outer bays; finialed, gabled dormers with bracketed cills to attic. Blank gable to N. Single storey section of steading adjoining S gable with 2 windows to W elevation. 3-bay elevation to E (courtyard) with mid-late 20th century piend-roofed porch to left and square windows at 1st floor.

INTERIOR: modernised from derelict condition circa 1985.

Non-traditional uPVC windows replacing lying-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Corniced gablehead and ridge stacks with short, decorative yellow clay cans. Saw-tooth skews. Graded grey slate.

STEADING RANGES: low, single storey range to S with piended roof at SW corner and ridge stack to centre; irregularly fenestrated with (mainly later) doors and windows to both elevations; graded grey slate roof. Slightly higher range to E with 2 depressed-arch vehicle entrances to courtyard elevation (1 blocked up to form garage); other door and window openings (some original glazing); 20th century additions abutting E elevation; piended roof to SE corner, gable to N; concrete tiles to roof.