Carrington Mains Farmhouse, Carrington

1. 2-storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan farmhouse with later additions and alterations. Tooled coursed yellow sandstone with droved dressings. Eaves course; projecting cills; long and short dressings and quoins.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; pink sandstone gabled porch advanced to centre of ground floor; panelled timber door; 8-pane timber windows to left and right returns; coped stone skews; grey slate roof with lead ridge. Window to left and right bays of ground floor. Regular fenestration to 1st floor.

NE ELEVATION: symmetrical; single window to centre of 1st floor. Single storey, 3-bay addition to right. Timber door with letter-box fanlight to gabled bay to centre flanked to right by 2-pane window; 2-pane window to piend roofed bay to left. Pal stone to outer right angle.

NW ELEVATION: asymmetrical; predominantly obscured by additions. 6-pane window to left of 1st floor. Single storey addition to centre and left bays of ground floor; window to each bay. Gabled single bay, 2-storey addition advanced to right; obscured at ground floor by adjoining Carrington Mains Steading (see separate listing).

SW ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; lean-to conservatory to ground floor; 2 window openings to centre of 1st floor, that to right is blind. 2-storey, 2-bay addition to outer right; regular fenestration.

Predominantly 4-pane timber sash and case windows. Purple-grey slate roof with lead ridge. Coped stone skews. Coped, tooled sandstone gablehead stacks with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 1998.

GATES, GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: ironwork gates to NE, S and E of house. Coped polished sandstone gatepiers with half-spherical caps to E; coped, coursed polished sandstone quadrant walls. Rubble wall to S of house with rubble coping.