Little Ballo

Little Ballo is an earlier 19th-century farmhouse with later additions, featuring a single storey and attic in an irregular plan. The building is constructed of random rubble with stugged ashlar dressings and has a slate roof. It includes single 4-pane sash and case windows, deep eaves with plain bargeboards, and brick end stacks that rise through the eaves.

On the south elevation, there is a door to the centre right with a fanlight and a later porch, and a gabled dormer that breaks through the eaves above. To the right is a window, and to the left is another window in a dormer. The east elevation has a single storey, piend-roofed bay that advances from the gable, featuring a door and two windows. The west gable has a window at both the ground and attic floor levels. The north elevation features a later stairwell bay that advances to the centre with a lattice-paned window and a half-piended roof; there is also a bay to the right at the re-entrant angle with a window and a swept roof.

The interior of the farmhouse does not have any special features. There is a round-coped rubble garden wall to the south.

Adjacent to the farmhouse is a near rectangular-plan steading from different periods. This includes an early 19th-century cart-shed and granary to the north, two earlier 19th-century ranges to the east and west, a late 19th-century cattle court in the centre, and a stable dated 1896 at the northwest angle. Modern buildings mask the north elevation of the cart-shed range. The steading is built of rubble with ashlar dressings (some red sandstone), a shuttered concrete stable, and features piended and gabled slate roofs.

The south elevation of the steading has four gables, with two at the centre that are partially boarded, a blank gable to the left, and a piended gable with a door and granary opening to the right. The west elevation includes a three-opening implement shed to the right with timber columns and a three-bay stable to the left. The east elevation has various doors and two granary openings. Inside the steading, there are square-headed cart-arches, original feeding troughs, hecks, and trevises.