Ancillary Structure, Butterdean Farmhouse

This is a farmhouse, likely dating in part to the 18th century, with later additions and alterations. It is a 2-storey, 3-bay rectangular building originally, with a prominent, full-height gabled projection to the front, a single-storey gabled porch, and a 2-storey wing to the rear creating a near L-shaped plan. A single-storey lean-to addition sits within the rear re-entrant angle. The farmhouse is harled and has cream sandstone dressings, with narrow strip quoins on the gabled projection, plain margins, and projecting cills throughout.

The south-east (entrance) elevation features a ball-finialled porch with a single window, a blind sandstone panel above, and a single window above the porch on the first floor. A further single window is located to the outer right. The gabled projection to the outer left has a canted window on the ground floor, a tripartite window on the first floor (with narrow side lights), and a blind sandstone panel in the gablehead.

The north-east (side) elevation has a two-bay gable end with windows on both floors in each bay. A timber-panelled door is recessed within a single-storey porch to the outer left. The irregularly fenestrated two-storey wing is recessed to the right, and a lean-to addition is visible in the re-entrant angle to the left.

The north-west (rear) elevation shows the projecting wing with a lean-to addition recessed to the left, and the two-storey entrance block set behind.

The south-west (side) elevation has a gable end with single windows on both floors to the left, a full-height single-bay addition to the outer right with a single window on the ground floor and a blocked opening above. The irregularly fenestrated two-storey wing is recessed to the outer left.

Most windows are timber sash and case with 4 panes, although some modern glazing is present. The roofs are grey slate with stone-coped skews, and there are corniced sandstone apex stacks with octagonal cans. Some original rainwater goods remain. The interior was not inspected in 1999.

To the north-west of the farmhouse are several ancillary structures. A single-storey stable has whitewashed harl and a piended dormer on its south-east (entrance) elevation, with a boarded timber door offset to the left. It features boarded timber stable doors and single windows, and has a corrugated-iron piended roof. The interior of the stable was not inspected in 1999, and a cobbled path runs along the front. A further single-storey store has harl-pointed rubble walls and sandstone dressings, with boarded timber doors in both bays on its north-west (entrance) elevation and a grey slate piended roof. The interior of the store was not inspected in 1999.

A near rectangular-plan walled garden, approximately 2,000 square meters in area, is situated to the north-west of the house. Rubble walls partially enclose the site, with corniced, squared-plan sandstone gatepiers displaying pyramidal caps and timber gates marking the entrance.