Montrose Farmsteading

Montrose Farmsteading is a complex of buildings dating to the late 18th century, with subsequent alterations, additions, and major reconstruction work in 1996. The farmstead comprises a two-storey, three-bay gabled farm cottage, flanked by a single-storey, three-bay store to the right and a single-storey garage block to the left. These three buildings form a detached northwest range of a stableyard, with a single-storey cottage and stables creating a U-plan block around the remaining three sides of the yard.

The buildings are constructed of cream sandstone rubble, originally harled, with ashlar surrounds to the openings.

The northwest range features an inward-facing elevation of nine bays, arranged in groups of three. The central cottage has an architraved doorway at ground level in the central bay and a window above it on the first floor. There is a window on each floor in each of the flanking bays. The three-bay store to the right has an architraved, boarded door in the central bay and a small window in each flanking bay. The converted garage block to the left has a boarded door in the central bay, a boarded hay loft door with a projecting roof, a door to the left, and a flat-arched garage door to the right. The outward-facing elevation is irregular, with seven bays. The central three-bay block is undergoing extensive alterations; a window at first floor is located in the bay to the left. The rear of the store consists of two bays with a window in each. The rear of the garage is three bays, each also with a window.

The southeast elevation, a four-bay harled cottage extending around the angle to the east, has a window in each bay. A canted three-light window sits centrally, and a modern plate glass sunroom extends into the re-entrant angle. Eight regularly disposed stables are situated around the remaining sides of the yard, each featuring stable doors and flanking tilting windows.

Inside the cottage and northwest range, the interior is a shell with exposed rafters and collar beams. Original dividing beams between floors remain, along with some rudimentary room division joists. A section of the cottage at the north end is still standing.

Windows are absent from the farm cottage within the northwest range; the store has four-pane tilting windows; the southeast cottage has 8-, 9-, 12-, and 16-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with red pantiles, featuring a grey slate easing course. Ashlar and replacement brick stacks rise from the gableheads of the northwest cottage, while a painted brick coped stack is present on the southeast cottage. Cast-iron rainwater goods, with some replacement plastic gutters on the stables and southeast cottage, are also present.