Papple Farm Steading

Papple Farm Steading is a mid-19th century building featuring an entrance range on the west side designed in a Germanic style. The centerpiece of the structure is a later stalk and engine house that is connected to the northern range. The west range is constructed from squared, snecked, and stugged rubble with ashlar dressings, while the northern additions use larger masonry. The openings have chamfered arrises, and there are gablet skews above the principal openings along with corbelled skewputts. The roof is covered with grey slates and corrugated asbestos on the northern projections.

The main range on the west side consists of seven symmetrical bays, with an advanced gabled entrance bay at the center. This bay features set-offs and a hoodmoulded round-arched opening leading to a pend, complete with a keystone and a corbelled dovecot above. There is a pointed-arch opening to the dovecot topped with a stone piend roof. The structure is crowned with a pyramid spire that intersects with the gables of each elevation, and it is adorned with a decorative weathervane. Each side of the entrance bay has two bays with hayloft windows that break the eaves in gabled dormerheads. The advanced gabled outer bays include windows at ground level and hayloft windows in the gableheads, with each return featuring a gabled hayloft door. Louvred, piend-roofed ventilators are positioned between the hayloft dormerheads on the west, featuring fish-scale piend roofs, lead flashings, and finials.

The northern range includes a high gabled wing that projects off-center to the right, with a gabled engine house set in a re-entrant to the left. There is an additional gabled projection on the eastern return that has machinery doors. A tall stone pedestal supports a circular section yellow brick stack with a moulded neck. To the left of the northern range, there are cast-iron columns supporting a cartshed.