Whittingehame Mains Farmsteading

Dated 1892. Improvement steading of one-build. Red

sandstone, squared, snecked and stugged with ashlar

dressings. Crowstepped gables with beaked skewputts.

Grey and purple slates, and pantiles to S range and

cattle courts to S; ridge ventilators. Engine House

projecting from N range at centre.

E RANGE: tall depressed-arch keystoned pend in slightly

advanced gabled bay, with date panel in apex;

decoratively boarded and railed timber gates; 2 gabled

dormerheads breaking eaves each side in single storey plants,

door to right; 2-storey bays to outer right with gabled

hayloft door to upper storey at centre, flanked by windows.

S RANGE: symmetrical. 3 machinery doorways with sliding

doors and slightly advanced gabled outer bays with

depressed arch entrance in right gable, and later

machinery door in left gable.

CARTSHED: on N elevation to E, of 4 bays, with timber

lintel and rectangular pillars; granary windows above and

to right. Cattle courts with canopied feeding areas on

cast-iron columns with awban (cattle tethering-posts) and

feeding doors, entered from S range by lugged openings

with rounded jambs.

STALK: circular section yellow brick stalk, ornamented with

band of grey brick and moulded neck and coping, set on

N range by engine house.