Logie Farm

Logie Farm

This is a late 18th-century U-plan steading and granary, partially reconstructed in 1933. The complex comprises a single-storey U-plan steading with south-facing crenellated screen walls to the northeast and southwest ranges, a central midden, a horse mill and walled paddock to the rear of the west range, and a free-standing eight-bay, two-storey cartshed and granary range to the southeast.

The U-plan steading is built of tooled, squared and coursed sandstone to the granary and upper portion of the screen walls, with tooled and coursed sandstone rubble to the main U-plan group. All ranges feature raised ashlar surrounds to openings, eaves courses, and quoins.

Southwest Range

The tall crenellated screen gable end wall includes a band course and small central arched recess. The front elevation has a sliding door to the left, a blind window to the right with a plaque reading "RECONSTRUCTED 1933 JMH" (James Maitland Hunt), a blocked window to the right of the plaque, a window, a door to the barn, and a doorway to the far right. The rear elevation features a circular horse mill (30 feet in diameter) to the left of centre with a polygonal roof retaining its interior truss arrangement. Blind openings to the right serve as feed holes to the byre (a former pig house) and granary. There are flanking doors, an arrow slit to the left, and a machinery door to the far left in the former strawhouse.

Northwest Range

An arrow slit to the far left marks the former strawhouse. A door to the right with flanking windows serves the stable. A large cart opening into the cartshed to the far right has a rounded right quoin and is flanked by a door into the stable to the left. The rear elevation is plain.

Northeast Range

The front elevation features a door to the far left with a flanking window to the right. Quoins appear to the right of the window with a ridge stack above. A door leads to the byre to the right. The residential section to the right, formed from former byres, has a pair of bipartite windows to the left. The former cottage to the right has three irregular windows. The former foreman's house to the far right has a central door with flanking paired windows. The rear elevation shows a window to the left, a door to the right, two windows to the right of the door, and three regularly spaced windows to the far right. The range terminates in a crenellated screen wall matching the southwest range but with a ground floor window to the right.

Windows and Finishes

Predominantly four-pane timber sash and case windows serve the cottage. Flush, cast-iron 19th-century rooflights appear throughout the ranges and horse mill. Pitched grey slate roofs cover the buildings, with raised louvered ridge ventilators to the farm buildings equipped with timber shutters inside to close off the vents. Three coped ridge stacks serve the northeast range. A weather-vane crowns the horse mill. A cobbled area lies in the yard by the cottage door.

Midden

A low, three-sided rubble wall, open to the southeast and curved at the corners with semi-circular coping, encloses a rectangular area in the centre of the U-plan range.

Paddock Wall

Three rubble walls enclose a large square paddock to the west of the southwest range.

Cartshed and Granary Range

The southeast elevation presents a classical, symmetrical five-bay design with ashlar surrounds to openings and blind windows. A central blind arched recess features cavetto moulding with tabs and keystones. Flanking wider blind arched recesses have keystones and tabs with flanking blind rectangular windows. Three square granary openings are centred above with timber shutters. The advanced outer bays have rusticated quoins and a low parapet, each containing a blind segmental arch with a single square granary opening centred above and timber shutters. A continuous cill course runs below the ground floor openings, with a dividing band course below the first floor openings and an eaves course hugging the first floor granary openings.

The southwest and northeast elevations are blank gable walls with ashlar band courses continuing from the southeast elevation and ashlar eaves courses. Three linked and coped ashlar stacks rise from these elevations. The northwest elevation features eight segmental-arched cart openings (some now blocked with brick) separated by stone piers. Eight square granary openings are centred above with raised ashlar surrounds and cills, some retaining boarded shutters. An eaves course hugs the granary openings.

A piended slate roof covers the range.

Interior

A first-floor door opens from the granary into the cartshed space below in the first two bays at the northeast. Stabling occupies the third to seventh bays with a flagged floor, central drainage channel, feeding troughs, and timber hayracks. A trap door in the fourth bay ceiling provides access to the loft above. A timber door in the far right arch opens to stone steps to the left leading to the upper story. A timber grain shaft remains to the right.

Boundary Features

A rubble wall runs southwest from the northwest elevation of the granary, terminating with a replacement conical coping stone. A pier with a similar, slightly damaged coping stone is attached to the screen wall of the southwest range.