Loanhead Farm

Loanhead Farm is an earlier 19th-century farmhouse that incorporates earlier materials. It is a two-storey, three-bay gabled building with lower wings to the north and south, and byre ranges that form a U-plan courtyard to the east (front). The structure is built of random sandstone and whinstone rubble with sandstone ashlar dressings, featuring squared, coursed, pinned rubble on the front elevation. The front of the house has a raised base course, eaves course, quoin strips, and window margins, while the south byre has raised margins.

The house and wings feature a two-leaf non-traditional uPVC front door set in a roll-moulded ashlar architrave. The windows are regularly spaced, with slight relieving arches over the ground-floor windows. The south wing, which is likely earlier, is a two-storey, two-bay structure with two doors on the ground floor and a single window on the first floor. The north wing is a single-storey, two-bay structure with a door and a narrow window. The rear of the building has irregular fenestration, predominantly featuring mid-20th-century windows at ground level, along with a lean-to outshot adjoining the two-storey wing.

The windows mainly have four-pane glazing in timber sash and case style, with 12-pane glazing on the first floor of the south wing. Some non-traditional glazing is present at the rear. The building has corniced, rendered stacks, some with yellow clay cans, and ashlar-coped skews, all covered by graded grey slate.

Inside, the drawing room features a decorative cornice, and there are some timber panelled interior doors. The staircase balusters may be boarded over.

The south byre dates to the early 19th century and may include 18th-century elements. It has a pigeon loft, a later doorway, and ashlar-coped skews on the east gable, along with a later lean-to addition to the north and a corrugated iron roof that is piended to the west.

The north byre is likely from the earlier to mid-19th century, constructed of random rubble with a slate roof. It has a gable to the east with a later entrance and a piended roof to the west, possibly extending to an earlier section on the west, along with lean-to additions to the north and south.

The boundary walls, gates, and gatepiers consist of coped random rubble walls to the east, south, and west. There is a high random rubble garden wall extending west from the south byre, with a gateway enclosing the courtyard at the front. The east side of the house features handsome corniced gatepiers with a wrought-iron gate, while the west wall of the garden has sandstone gatepiers with a simple wrought-iron gate.