Yorkston Farmhouse

Yorkston Farmhouse is an earlier 19th-century farmhouse, originally of an L-shaped plan with three bays, and extended in the later 19th century to the rear. It is constructed of tooled coursed sandstone, with droved dressings, a base course, and a moulded eaves course. Raised margins and quoins are also present.

The north (principal) elevation is asymmetrical, with a gabled bay projecting to the right, featuring regular window placement on both the ground and first floors. A later 19th-century porch of stugged sandstone, with a slate roof, is set into the re-entrant angle with the central bay, containing a window and a panelled timber door with a two-pane fanlight to the left return; a window is placed above the door on the first floor. Regular fenestration is found in the flanking bay to the left.

The west elevation is also asymmetrical, with two bays. A 20th-century lean-to conservatory obscures a two-leaf glazed timber door with a letterbox fanlight on the left; a window sits above. A two-leaf glazed timber door, also with a letterbox fanlight and louvred shutters, is located on the ground floor of the right bay, with a corresponding window above. A two-storey, single-bay extension is set to the outer right, featuring a window to the centre of the tooled coursed sandstone ground floor and an off-centre window to the right of the pink sandstone rubble first floor.

The south elevation is asymmetrical, with two bays, a four-pane window on the right of the first floor of the gabled bay to the left, and the remainder obscured by an advanced two-storey gabled addition. A lean-to porch is situated in the re-entrant angle to the right, with a two-pane window and two boarded timber doors on the return. A 20th-century bowed window features on the ground floor of the right bay.

The east elevation is asymmetrical, with two bays; the gabled bay to the right is blank, while the gabled bay to the left has a multi-pane window and a first-floor window.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows are present. The roof is covered in grey slate with a lead ridge, incorporating ridge skews with block skewputts. Tooled, coped gablehead stacks are topped with circular cans and cast iron rainwater goods are in place. The interior was not inspected in 1998.

Coped ashlar gatepiers with pyramidal caps and rubble walls with semi-circular coping mark the boundaries.

An ancillary building, dating to the mid-18th century, is located to the southwest of the house. This single-storey, single-bay building has a rectangular plan and is constructed of random rubble with long and short droved dressings. A large basket arched opening is present on the north elevation, with a circular opening above it in the gablehead. It is roofed with grey slate and has a lead ridge with ventilation openings, along with stone skews.