Threshing Barn, Ness, Tankerness

Mid 19th century with later alterations. Single storey, 3-bay rectangular-plan symmetrical cottage with square-plan entrance porch and lean-to addition at rear; single storey L-plan farm buildings to E; single storey, 3-bay rectangular-plan symmetrical bothy to SW; single storey threshing barn on N-S axis, with adjacent wind-powered water pump to W; single storey barn on N-S axis to S of threshing barn. Cottage: harled. Farm buildings: harled and rubble. Bothy: harl-pointed rubble. Threshing barn and barn: rubble and harled respectively.

COTTAGE: S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: window in porch in bay to centre; boarded door in right return; window in left return. Window in each bay flanking.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: blank elevation with blank lean-to addition to left.

E (SIDE) ELEVATION: window offset to left in gabled bay to left; gablehead stack above. Boarded door in lean-to bay to right.

W (SIDE) ELEVATION: window offset to right; gablehead stack above.

12-pane timber sash and case windows; fixed timber-framed window with top hung upper light to porch. Corrugated-iron roof; stone ridge; coped skews; harled, coped gablehead stacks to E and W; cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1998.

FARM BUILDINGS: various rectangular-plan barns and byres forming L-plan complex to NE of main cottage. Predominantly corrugated-iron roofs; some graded stone tiled roofs; some coped skews; boarded doors, some sliding.

INTERIORS: byre forming N range: timber rafters and tie beams; concrete stall divisions along E wall; central slurry channel. Remainder not fully seen, 1998.

BOTHY: W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: corrugated-iron, lean-to entrance porch in bay to centre; boarded door to left return. Window in each bay flanking.

E (REAR) ELEVATION: window in bay to centre. Lean-to addition in bay to left; boarded door to right return.

N AND S (SIDE) ELEVATIONS: blank gabled elevations; gablehead stacks.

Fixed, 4-pane timber-framed windows. Graded stone tiled roof; stone ridge; flagstone roof to rear addition; rubble, corniced gablehead stacks.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1998.

THRESHING BARN: E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: centred 2-leaf folding door.

N (END) ELEVATION: part-boarded window to gablehead.

S (END) ELEVATION: gablehead window.

Fixed timber-framed windows. Graded stone tiled roof; stone ridge.

INTERIOR: floor divided as grain store to S end; formerly engine-powered timber threshing machine along W wall.

WIND PUMP: steel-framed tripod supporting steel sails in circular arrangement; wind-direction paddle from centre; rectangular water tank raised on concrete support adjacent to N.

BARN: centred 2-leaf boarded doors to S. Corrugated-iron roof.