Redside

Redside

Earlier 19th century. A 2-storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan farmhouse and steading with later additions and alterations. The main house is built of coursed, tooled sandstone with broached dressings, featuring a base course, projecting cills, eaves course, and long and short quoins.

The north-west (entrance) elevation is symmetrical, with an architraved doorway at the centre of the ground floor, now obscured by an early 20th-century glazed timber lean-to porch containing a small-pane timber door. Windows flank the doorway, with regular fenestration to the first floor. The south-west elevation is symmetrical with a single window at the centre of the ground floor. The north-east elevation is asymmetrical, with a window off-centre to the right of the ground floor and a window to the centre of the first floor.

The south-east elevation is asymmetrical and 3-bayed. Two bays to the left at ground floor are obscured by 19th and 20th-century additions, with a window visible in the bay to the left of the ground floor and regular fenestration to the first floor. A single-storey, piend-roofed, T-plan addition advances to the centre and right bays of the ground floor. On the south-east elevation of this addition, a window sits off-centre to the left of the leftmost bay, with another window to a recessed bay to the right. The north-east elevation of the addition features 4 bays, with windows to the penultimate bay to the left and the outer left bay; the penultimate bay to the right is advanced with a window to the right return, and a window serves the outer right bay. The south-west elevation displays 5 bays: a glazed timber door with letterbox fanlight to the centre bay, two-leaf glazed timber doors to a flanking bay to the right, a window to the flanking bay to the left, a window to a cement-faced bay to the outer right, and the roof sweeps down over the outer left bay with a window to its right return.

Windows throughout are predominantly 4-pane timber sash and case. The roof is grey slate with a lead ridge, coped stone skews, and stugged, coursed sandstone coped gablehead stacks with octagonal cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods complete the exterior.

The interior has not been surveyed (as of 1998).

The steading comprises a courtyard-plan arrangement built of pink and yellow sandstone rubble with droved dressings and boarded timber doors.

The north range is T-plan. Its south-east (courtyard) elevation has 4 bays, with 2 gabled bays to the right and a large sliding door to the outer right; irregular openings appear to the left return, with 2 bays to the right recessed, a sliding door to the penultimate bay to the right, and a door to the outer right. The south-west and north-east elevations have a doorway to the centre, and the north-west elevation has a single window off-centre to the right.

The west range is rectangular in plan. Its north-west (courtyard) elevation shows irregular window and door openings, the south-west elevation has a door off-centre to the right, and the south-east elevation has a single window off-centre to the left. The north-east elevation has not been surveyed (as of 1998).

The east range is L-plan and 2-storey. Its north-west (courtyard) elevation is asymmetrical with 5 bays: doors serve the penultimate bay to the right, the penultimate bay to the left, and the outer left of the ground floor; a two-leaf door occupies the penultimate bay to the right at first-floor level; a window to the penultimate bay to the left has been infilled; boarded timber fenestration covers the remaining bays. A rubble wall with flat coping and a door to the outer right links this range to the west range. The south-west elevation presents a near-symmetrical cartshed and granary of 3 bays, each with a segmentally-arched, chamfered opening at ground floor and a window opening at first-floor level. The south-west elevation is gabled and blank; remaining elevations have not been surveyed (as of 1998).

The north-east range is a small structure with a pantiled roof positioned to the north-east of the steading.

The steading roofs are predominantly piended with graded grey slate and lead ridges. Stone skews appear where the building is gabled. Rainwater goods comprise a mixture of cast-iron and plastic.