Kirkforthar

Kirkforthar is an early 19th century farmhouse that has undergone alterations and additions in the late 19th century. It is a two-storey, three-bay building with gabled roofs, featuring harled walls with painted margins and quoin strips, and a deep base course. The stone mullions add to its character.

On the south elevation, there is a central two-leaf boarded timber door with a plate glass fanlight above, flanked by canted windows, all sheltered by a continuous slated roof that forms a porch. The first floor has three windows positioned close to the eaves, with a chimney gablet above that features decorative scroll skewputts and a blinded window.

The north elevation includes a door with flanking windows in a low, flat-roofed porch, with an additional window above in a further flat-roofed extension. This is set to the right of an advanced left bay that has windows on both floors, while a blank, piended, single-storey bay is advanced to the right.

On the west elevation, there is a window to the left of centre at ground level and a small window in a single-storey extension to the outer left, with another window to the left at the first floor.

The east elevation features two irregularly placed windows to the right of centre at both ground and first floor levels, along with a small window in the gablehead.

The windows are timber sash and case with a four-pane glazing pattern and plate glass glazing. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are coped stacks with some cans. The ashlar coped skews include a stepped one to the northeast, along with scroll skewputts and thackstanes.

The property is enclosed by coped rubble boundary walls.