Old Steading, Abbeymill Farm

The farm complex, likely with origins in the 17th century, has undergone substantial alterations, particularly in the 19th century. It is composed of a farmhouse, a cottage, a range of traditional buildings (the old steading), and a more recent corrugated iron barn.

The old steading, originally possibly a house, now serves as a cartshed, store, and granary. This is a two-storey building with a single-storey addition to the south, constructed from variegated random rubble, with some margins being roughly dressed and others finely moulded. The east elevation features two large ground-floor doors and a regular ground-floor door, all with timber lintels. A stone forestair with a timber railing leads to a first-floor dormerheaded door (piended and slated), flanked by two boarded windows. The single-storey addition has a large opening with a timber lintel, and a timber lean-to shed with a corrugated roof. The west elevation incorporates three first-floor boarded vents and a doorway breaking the eaves in the style of a catslide dormer. The north gable displays unusual features, including a buttress (or the remainder of one) and one or two infilled windows. The roof is covered in red pantiles, gabled and incorporating skews.

The farmhouse, built in the later 19th century, is a two-storey, irregular L-plan structure. It is constructed of harled rubble, white-painted with black margins. The angled front elevation facing west and south features a door with a small flat-roofed porch in the angle of return, a four-panelled door with a letterbox fanlight, flanked by bipartite windows. The first floor has three windows, two of which break the eaves in gabled dormerheads. Similar arrangements are present on the east and north elevations. The south-facing gable has one window on each floor. Windows are timber sash and case, mostly with four panes. The roof is covered in graded grey slate with overhanging verges, and supports three stacks built in patched ashlar with moulded copes and plain cans.

The later 19th century farm cottage is a single-storey, three-bay building, largely white harled with contrasting black margins, though one gable is in random rubble and the porch is in snecked rubble. The south elevation has a plain boarded door in a central gabled porch, flanked by bipartite windows; narrow side windows are also present. A piended extension to the rear has bipartite windows, and a skewed south gable features a single window. Fenestration is in timber sash and case windows, mostly with four panes. The roof is covered in graded grey slate, with patched ashlar stacks incorporating projecting copes and plain cans. The cottage is connected to the farmhouse by a rounded archway with a gabled slate roof, projecting verges, leading to a yard and the steading.

The steading forms a large tripartite construction with piended red pantile roofs. Behind it, to the north, is a large rectangular barn constructed of red-painted corrugated iron, gabled with a rounded roof.