Tongue Mains

Tongue Mains is an imposing farm steading, carriage house, and stable square dated 1843. The building is constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings. Its symmetrical south facade features nine bays, with a slightly advanced and gabled center bay that includes a high round-headed arched entrance. Above the entrance is a datestone, monogram, and coronet, along with a set of dovecote flight holes and an associated alighting ledge in the gable apex. The archway is flanked by groups of three tall round-headed arched entrances for the carriage house and stables. The outer bays are also slightly advanced and gabled, each containing paired ground floor windows and a central first-floor window.

The east side of the square is formed by a pair of single-storey and attic cottages, one with two bays and the other with three bays, each having a central door. These cottages feature three barge-boarded dormers and have ridge and rear wallhead stacks. The remainder of the square includes a byre and stores, with a horse walk on the north side. There is a loft entrance with a stone hoist in the north gable of the entrance tower.

Notable architectural details include crowsteps, stone finials, and lattice glazing that survives in most of the windows on the south front. The roof is finished with fine graded local slate.