Currie Mains

Late 18th century. 2-storey, 3-bay rectangular-plan traditional farmhouse, with flanking wings; outbuildings and ruined cottage to rear. Harled with droved red sandstone dressings.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: near symmetrical; central doorway at ground; glazed timber door with 4-pane fanlight; windows to flanking bays; regular fenestration to 1st floor. Blank harled wing with pantiled roof recessed to outer left, open to rear forming barn for animals; random rubble wing with red tiled replacement roof and glazed timber door recessed to outer right.

SW ELEVATION: single windows at ground and 1st floors off-centre to left.

NE ELEVATION: replacement window to centre at ground, with built-up cement surround; small single pane window recessed in wall to left; single window to 1st floor.

SE ELEVATION: mainly obscured by later additions, single window off-centre to right at 1st floor; largely reconstructed random sandstone rubble single storey, 2-bay wing to outer left with tooled dressings; glazed timber doors to left and window to right; metal chimney to roof. 19th century 3-bay tooled sandstone rubble lean-to addition to centre with red slate roof; 4-pane window to centre; glazed boarded timber door to left; glazed timber door to right; outbuilding to outer right (see below).

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Purple-grey slate piended roof with lead ridge; stone skews; cast-iron rainwater goods; coped gablehead stacks with circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.

OUTBUILDING: late 18th century with late 20th century alterations. Single storey and attic, rectangular-plan random rubble outbuilding with polished dressings and modern pantiled roof with tiled easing course. SW elevation: chamfered doorways; 2-leaf boarded timber door to outer left with glazed panels; boarded timber door to right with glazed panel; modern windows breaking eaves to attic floor; ruined cottage to outer right (see below). SE elevation: obscured by cottage (see below). NE elevation: modern timber door with glazed panel to right of ground floor, bipartite window breaking eaves to attic, flanked to right by 2 modern skylights; wing/barn to outer right (see above). NW elevation: obscured by adjoining farmhouse.

COTTAGE: single storey, rectangular-plan cottage; roof removed, originally pantiled; SE elevation: boarded timber door to outer left, small vertical opening to centre; NE elevation: small vertical opening to centre at ground, coped bellcote at apex of gable, bell removed; NW elevation: central window opening, blocked window opening to outer right, small vertical opening to left; SW elevation: blank, with bricked up opening to outer left.

BOUNDARY WALLS: random rubble walls with rubble coping.