Newton Farm Steading And Gatepiers, Millerhill

Circa 1840. Pair of 1 ?-storey symmetrical rectangular improvement farm buildings with central gables flanking entrance piers to courtyard. Snecked and dressed sandstone; ashlar long and short quoins, projecting sills, crow stepped gables.

NW BUILDING: SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: sliding machinery door, centrally placed rectangular window to gablehead, crow steps tooled to form gable end, beaked skewputts to front and each flanking end, cast-iron weathervane surmounting; single storey with door on right to left flank, further door to left return; single storey with rectangular window to right flank, oculus to gable head, chimney to left rear.

SE BUILDING: SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: multi-gabled L-shaped complex. Central gable end: rectangular window to ground floor, projecting sill, adjoining vertically placed oculi to gablehead, crowsteps tooled to form gable-end, beaked skewputts to front and each flanking end, chimneys breaking through left side of roof; single storey with window off centre right to left flank, further door to left of left return; single storey with rectangular window to right flank.

REAR ELEVATION: partially converted H-plan block extending to NE to rear with piended slate roof, not seen 2000.

8-pane timber horizontal fixed glazing to most, some with later in-fill. Piended slate roof with original Carron cast-iron roof lights with central astragals; mostly lead ridging, some terracotta ridge tiles. Later rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: NW building houses implements and machinery; SE building converted for office/domestic use.

GATEPIERS: coursed tooled square red sandstone blocks, grey square stone copes, pyramid capitals surmounting. Gates missing.