Sheardrum

Sheardrum is an early 19th century farmhouse that stands two stories tall and features three bays, designed in an L-plan layout. At the rear, there are rectangular-plan steading ranges that incorporate earlier materials along with later additions.

The farmhouse is constructed from squared, coursed, and droved sandstone at the front, while the rear is made of rubble with ashlar dressings, a base course, and an eaves course at the front. There is a modern door located in the off-centre right bay, which is accessed by two steps, with a window above and additional windows in the flanking bays. The rear elevation includes a harled lean-to on the left, a stepped wallhead stack in the centre, and irregular windows to the right of centre on both floors. There is also an opening in the west return gable at ground level. The roof is covered with graded grey slates, and ashlar skews and gablehead stacks with cans are present.

The steading is built from rubble sandstone with ashlar margins and has red pantiles. It features an L-plan range that is attached to the farmhouse at the west corner and extends north. There is a taller two-storey, three-bay stable and hayloft building connected to the rear of the house, which has a loft door that breaks the eaves in a piend-roofed dormer. This building also includes a timber stair, a small window below the flanking door, another door to the right, and two small square windows under the eaves. The range continues as a single storey to the north, with cart openings leading to the courtyard and exterior elevations.

The northern range has a piend-roofed workshop building that abuts the courtyard in the re-entrant angle, featuring cart and machinery doors and windows. The eastern range consists of a two-storey mill, cartshed, and barn, with a single-storey end closing to the north. It has two segmental cart arches leading to the courtyard, a swept dormer above a loft window, two doors, and irregular windows. The rear of this range is nearly blank and houses a cast-iron undershot wheel (with paddles missing) and a lade that runs parallel to the range, diverting water to the wheel.

The interiors were not seen during the last inspection in 1996.