Littledean Farmhouse

Littledean Farmhouse is a Tudor-style farmhouse designed by architect William J Gray from Coldingham, built around 1870, with later additions and alterations. It is an asymmetrical two-storey, three-bay structure featuring a gabled projection at the front and a lower wing at the rear that forms a near Z-plan. There is also a single-storey lean-to garage block beyond the main building. The front is finished in coursed render, while the sides are harled and the rear is made of harl-pointed rubble. The farmhouse has droved cream sandstone dressings, which are tooled at the rear, along with a base course and partially moulded eaves. Sandstone quoins, tabbed and chamfered margins, chamfered cills, and predominantly painted, chamfered mullions add to its architectural detail.

On the south elevation, there is a centrally located timber panelled door at ground level, topped by a diamond-paned leaded fanlight. Above this, a gabled dormer head features a bipartite window that breaks the eaves. There is also a bipartite window at ground level in the outer left bay, with another gabled dormer head above it. To the outer right, a full-height gabled wing projects, featuring a tripartite window at ground level, a bipartite window on the first floor, and a small attic light above, topped with a tapering finial on the gablehead.

The east side elevation shows the main block with a bipartite window at ground level to the outer left and a gabled bay to the right with a first-floor bipartite window that is offset to the left of centre. A lower two-bay range is recessed to the right, with timber doors at ground level and single windows on the first floor. The lean-to garage addition is located at the outer right.

On the west side elevation, there is a two-bay gabled range to the right with bipartite windows on both floors in the bays flanking the centre. To the left, a lower two-bay wing has bipartite windows on both floors in each bay, with the upper floor breaking the eaves with a single gablehead. There is a blind elevation to the full-height projection that is recessed to the outer right.

The farmhouse features predominantly lying-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof with stone-coped skews and moulded skewputts. The west elevation has a corniced, brick-built apex stack with four linked flues, while the east elevation has a modern brick-built apex stack. Circular cans are present throughout the building.

The interior was not seen in 1999. Surrounding the site are garden walls made of rubble, which are also rubble-coped.