Papple Farm Steading

Mid 19th century. Entrance range to W in Germanic style

centrepiece and later stalk and engine house adjoined to

N range. Squared, snecked and stugged rubble and

ashlar dressings to W range, larger masonry to later

additions at N. Chamfered arrises to openings. Gablet

skews to principal openings and corbelled skewputts.

Grey slates, corrugated asbestos to N projections.

W (MAIN) RANGE: 7 symmetrical bays; advanced gabled

entrance bay at centre with set-offs, hoodmoulded

round-arched opening to pend, with keystone and

corbelled dovecot above; pointed-arch opening to dovecot

and stone piend roof. Pyramid spire intersected by

gables of each elevation; decorative weathervane. 2-bays

flanking each side with hayloft windows breaking eaves in

gabled dormerheads. Advanced gabled outer bays with

windows at ground and hayloft window in gablehead; each

return with gabled hayloft door. Louvred, piend-roofed

ventilators set between hayloft dormerheads to W, with

fish-scale Piend roofs, lead flashings and finials.

N RANGE AND STALK: high gabled wing projecting off-centre

to right with gabled engine house set in re-entrant to

left, and with further gabled projecting on E return with

machinery doors. Tall stone pedestal to circular section

yellow brick stack with moulded neck. Cast-iron columns

to cartshed to left of N range.