Steading, Ussie Mills

Early 19th century with mid 19th century additions and alterations.

Quadrangular steading, open at NE. Red sandstone rubble, limewashed at

intervals with white painted harling to outer elevations of 2-storey SE and NE ranges.

SE RANGE: on falling ground. Windows at ground and short hayloft

windows hard under eaves above with 2 later loading doors breaking eaves in piend-roofed dormerheads in penultimate bays; SE corner swept out slightly at loft level. Roof ridge ventilator at SW end and cast-iron rooflights. Later ashlar stack and sandstone coping to blank NE gable. Courtyard elevation with boarded timber opening with doors in re-entrant angle to SW.

NE RANGE: slightly later, piend-roofed. 4 bays to outer elevation

grouped 3-1 with doors at ground (that to outer right blocked as

window) and short loft windows under eaves above. Blank return to NW.

Cast-iron rooflight. Courtyard elevation with sliding doors to left and

further rooflight.

SW RANGE: timber 2-leaf doors to courtyard and timber lean-to, blank to

outer elevation.

NW RANGE: lean-to timber projections to courtyard; timber gableheads and higher external walls higher, 3 small high windows to outer

elevation at right. Purple slate roofs. Stone and zinc flashings.