Oxenfoord Mains

This is an earlier 19th century farmhouse, originally a home farm for what is now the Oxenfoord Estate and situated on the A6093. It is thought to have served Chester Hall. The farmhouse is a good example of a classical detached house within its own grounds, with a later extension to the rear and its steading located on the opposite side of the road (listed separately). The farm remains part of the Oxenfoord Estate.

The main, southwest elevation is three bays wide and two storeys high with a design incorporating a round-headed doorway. The doorway has a panelled door with a semi-circular glazed fanlight above, flanked by architraved pilasters and topped with an architraved cornice and rectangular pediment. There are single windows to each side of the doorway, and two regular bays to the first floor. The southeast elevation was not inspected in 2000. The northeast, or rear, elevation has a two-storey extension to the left and centre, a further lean-to extension adjoining, and a single bay window on each storey on the right side. The northwest elevation features a blind wall with a single ground-floor window to the right and a wallhead stack in the centre.

The windows are 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is piended and covered with grey slate, with zinc ridging. Tall dressed ashlar wallhead stacks have projecting neck copes. The interior was not inspected in 2000. The boundary walls are constructed of coursed and random rubble, with semi-circular shaped coping running along the road.

Land from Airfield farm, near Cousland, was divided between Northfield farm and Oxenfoord Mains. A new farmhouse, named New Airfield, was built on Oxenfoord land and can still be seen near the sawmill. Oxenfoord Mains Farmhouse shares design similarities, such as form and plan, with the former U.P. Manse in Ford, now called Woodlands (also listed in Cranston Parish).