Bellfield Farmhouse Including Stone Well, North Kessock

Bellfield farmhouse is an earlier 19th century Georgian style house, prominently positioned above the Beauly Firth. The house is T-plan, 2-storey and 3-bay, with single storey wings to the S (principal) elevation, and a distinctive bowed central bay with conical shaped roof, probably the original entrance bay.

Description: S-facing principal elevation, 2-storey main block, with single storey wings to E and W, and long N jamb to rear. Double height, bowed central bay to 3-bay main block; later tripartite window to bow (probably replacing original entrance). Distinctive slated conical roof to bow, piended to roof of main block. Windows at ground and 1st floor of outer bays; ashlar margins; later, mid-20th century window and door opening replacing original window to left bay. Strip quoins to main block, now rendered. Tall, tripartite windows to flanking wings; large picture window to centre with narrow outer windows, stone mullions; stone skews to gabled ends. Long, 2-storey N jamb to rear; random fenestration pattern with many later changes and additions; stone skews with ridge.

Interior: much changed mid-20th century. Central mid-20th century timber staircase to former entrance hall. Some banded cornicing and classical ceiling roses to principal rooms at ground floor; some original timber panelled window jambs and surrounds throughout house.

Materials: possibly ashlar to principal elevation; heavily rendered. Some original 6 over 6 sash and case windows to principal elevation; replacement mid-20th century windows to remaining openings. Pitched roofs, piended to main block; grey Scots slate. Ashlar ridge and gablehead stacks; projecting ashlar course to head, concrete pointing, rendered stacks to rear. Black mid-20th century cans.

Ancillary Structures: round, random rubble well, located on lawn to the S of principal elevation, sitting on the former axis of symmetry through the building.