Hall Of Tankerness

Hall of Tankerness

A steading complex of possibly late 18th to early 19th-century date with later alterations and additions, situated to the south of the main house (listed separately). The buildings form an informal E-plan courtyard, open to the west, and comprise a 2-storey, 3 by 2-bay crowstep-gabled store and barn forming the north range; a single-storey, 3-bay crowstep-gabled smithy forming the central range; a 2-storey, 3-bay symmetrical farmhouse with slightly lower 2-storey wings to the east and west and a lean-to addition to the south forming the south range; a part-crenellated screen wall with lean-to cart sheds and stores forming the linking east range; a detached 2-storey L-plan cartshed and barn to the northwest of the steading; and a long, low rectangular-plan lean-to row of pigsties to the southeast of the farmhouse. All buildings are constructed of harl-pointed roughly coursed rubble.

The farmhouse, forming the south range, has a principal south elevation with a lean-to addition featuring a cat-slide roof spanning bays to the right at ground level, a doorway set to the left, and a window in the bay to the left of the main house behind. There are windows in each bay at first-floor level. A round-arched entrance with a remnant of a fanlight is located at ground level in the bay to the left. The wings to the right have blank elevations, as does the further lower pitched-roofed addition to the outer right.

The north (rear) elevation has a tall boarded sliding door at ground level in the centre bay, with a blocked stair window above. There is a window at each floor in the bay to the left. The east barn and cartshed range projects at right angles from the wing addition to the outer left, with a window at first-floor level in the bay to the right. A blocked doorway exists at ground level in the wing addition to the outer right.

The west side elevation has windows at each floor to the gabled elevation. The east side elevation is blank and gabled, with a doocot entrance to the gablehead of the pitched-roofed addition and a window to the gablehead of the wing addition above.

The farmhouse is fitted with fixed 6-pane timber-framed windows; a lattice leaded window to the west; the remainder are blocked. The roof is of grey slate with stone skews and rubble, corniced gablehead stacks to the central core of the house. Cast-iron rainwater goods are present.

The smithy, forming the central range, has a 4-bay north (entrance) elevation, grouped 2-2, with boarded doors in each bay to the left (east) and boarded doors to the left with flanking windows in the bays to the right (west). The south (rear) elevation has a small window in each bay to the east block. Windows are fixed timber-framed, with small rooflights to both pitches. The east block has a graded flagstone roof, the west block has a grey slate roof, both with stone ridge and rubble, corniced gablehead stacks to the north and south.

The store and barn forming the north range has a principal south elevation with a boarded sliding door at ground level in the centre bay, a deep-set boarded hayloft door at first-floor level above, a blocked window flanking to the right, and a boarded door with a letterbox fanlight with a flanking window in the bay to the left. The east side elevation has a blocked doorway at ground level in the centre bay, blocked windows to each side of the gable above, and a gablehead stack above. The roof is of flagstone, with harl-pointed rubble and corniced gablehead stacks to the east and west.

The cartsheds and stores forming the east (linking) range have a principal west elevation with 5 segmental-arched cartshed openings between the north and central ranges, a graded flagstone roof and stone ridge. There are 4 evenly disposed boarded doors between the central range and farmhouse with a corrugated-iron roof and a crenellated screen wall to the rear. A modern barn stands to the south of the central range.

The L-plan barn and store to the northwest has a tall segmental-arched opening with sliding timber doors to the south gable with a gablehead stack above. There are windows at each floor to each internal (southeast) elevation and timber doors set close to the internal angle of each elevation. Timber-framed upper sashes with louvered lower sashes are present. The roof is of grey slate with stone ridge and coped skews; rubble, corniced gablehead stacks to the south and east.

The pigsties have an east (entrance) elevation with 6 regularly disposed doorways; a keeper's doorway to the outer left and lower sty entrances to the remaining 5 bays with rectangular-plan pig runs with rubble walls in front. The roof is of corrugated iron with a rubble, corniced vestigial stack to the southeast angle.

The interiors were not examined as of 1998.

A circular-plan rubble well wall with rubble cope stands to the west of the farmhouse, forming a central courtyard feature. The wellhead is blocked.