Ballantager Farmhouse And Steading

Early 19th century. Near symmetrical composition of farmhouse and steading, with steading gables treated as wings Whinstone rubble, with contrasting droved, yellow ashlar long and short dressings. House: 2-storeys and 3 bays; original central door behind glazed porch; 12-pane sashes; corniced end stacks and slate roof. Linked to steading gables by low wings; blind tripartite in left door and window in right. Gables have round-headed ground floor openings (pend to right) below blind semi-circular loft openings. Rectangular courtyard to west, single storey and lofts, partly infilled by 2 later sheds, 5 segmental-headed cart openings to courtyard elevation of south wing (4 arcaded), and modern large rectangular opening; 2 loft doors and 8 small windows above. Later addition to north wing, doubling its thickness, has 4 cart openings to north elevation, 3 original with segmental heads, 4th a later rectangular insertion. Slated and pantile roofs.