North Range, Cherrytrees Farmsteading

The west range of Cherrytrees Farmsteading dates to the earlier 19th century, with subsequent additions, alterations, and recent demolitions. It was constructed as a substantial, quadrangular group of courtyards situated on a sloping ground, and originally included a cartshed, granary, implement shed, barn, and landing shed. The building is primarily constructed of whinstone rubble with contrasting grey sandstone ashlar dressings, incorporating depressed cart arches with keystones and impost blocks.

The south range consists of a 4-bay cartshed and granary, notable for granary openings that break through the eaves in segmentally arched dormerheads with lead coping. A gabled hayloft door is centrally located. Flanking walls are blank, with a chamfered angle on the outer right side. A taller, piended end elevation of the west range rises on higher ground to the outer left. A later piended roof range of byres projects from the courtyard elevation on the left.

The west range features taller bays in the centre, with a depressed-arch pend in the central bay. A gabled dormerhead with a round-arched hayloft door sits above the pend on the external elevation. Machinery doors have been inserted to the left, and lower bays have doors to the right. Stable accommodation was formerly located in bays to the right, with doors and windows on the exterior and a door and ventilation slits on the courtyard side. Later windows, with brick margins, are present on the courtyard elevation, and evidence indicates a former gabled range once divided the courts.

The north range has taller 2-storey bays at the centre, flanked by single-storey bays to the left and lower 2-storey bays with a granary to the right. An addition was made to the east end, and an implement shed projects centrally to the north.

The east range has been largely demolished, although a free-standing, rectangular, piended roof office/bothy remains at the centre. It has a door on the east elevation and a window on the south, with one surviving sash window featuring a diamond-pane glazing pattern.

The roofing is of purple and grey slates, with ashlar coped skews to the gable ends of the taller bays.

A clocktower/dovecot, a square-plan, squat 2-stage tower (incorporating a dovecot on the lower stage and a clocktower stage above), which was formerly set within a dividing range, is now free-standing at the centre of the remaining ranges. This is constructed of whinstone rubble with grey ashlar sandstone dressings. It features a base course and consoled ashlar brackets to each corner above the lower stage. A circular, hoodmoulded panel displaying a clockface is on each elevation below the parapet. The parapet is stone bracketed and crenellated, with pinnacled, finialled ashlar dies to the angles. A grey slated pyramidal spire topped with a weathervane completes the structure. The lower stage has a small opening with a cill course, and a bull's-eye above. Flight-holes are situated below a rat-course at the foot of the upper stage. Evidence of former ranges adjoins the east and west elevations on the lower stage. The north elevation features a doorway to the clocktower, set below the clockface, with no forestair apparent; access was presumably by ladder.

The interior is largely gutted, but some large nesting boxes are still visible in the lower stage.

A further flat-roofed range, sited to the north of the steading, comprises eight segmental vaults, accessed via dressed archways on the south. It is dated 1838 and follows the rising ground, likely designed as a lambing shed.