Steading, Edrom Newton

Steading at Edrom Newton

This is a single-storey quadrangular-plan steading dated 1874, with some later alterations. The main ranges are built with stugged ashlar and droved ashlar dressings, while the court elevations are harl-pointed rubble with droved ashlar dressings. The south-east range features a curvilinear gable.

The south-east range contains a cartshed, dovecot and stables. Its south-east elevation is symmetrical with nine bays grouped 1-3-1-3-1. The centre features a round-arched entrance to the court, slightly advanced and raised, with an ornamental curvilinear gable. Above this sits a gablet dovecot with flightholes to the gablehead, a shield with the date, a ball finial to the apex and a weather vane. Each bay of the flanking three-bay groups has a window. The slightly advanced outer bays are broad and gabled, each with a modern sliding door and a window to the gablehead; ashlar ball finials crown the apexes. The north-west court elevation is irregular with bays grouped 5-1-3. A round-arched raised bay occupies the centre. The five-bay group to the left of centre has a boarded door to the outer right and four segmental-arched openings grouped to the left. The three-bay group to the right has a door to the centre flanked by windows. Windows are six-pane with blinded lower sashes. The roof is slated with some ridge vents. The interior has setts to the floor of the stables to the south-west of centre with sandstone trevis-holders and a gully.

The north-east range contains byres with two open cattle courts to the south-west. Its north-east elevation is irregular with five bays. Boarded doors occupy the centre and a bay to the left of centre. A pair of windows sits in the bay to the right of centre. The outer bays are gabled with kneelers and slightly advanced; the bay to the outer left has a window at ground level and to the gablehead, while the bay to the outer right has a boarded door with a window to the gablehead and a later lean-to addition to the left with a two-leaf boarded double door. The south-west court elevation has eight bays grouped 2-3-2-1. The three-bay group to the centre has a gabled projection into the court with a sliding two-leaf boarded door to the south-west; two cast-iron columnar supports to an open cattle shed sit at each return elevation to the north-east end. Segmental-arched openings occupy the flanking bays, each with a sandstone rubble coped wall to the outer. Boarded doors occupy each bay of the closely-spaced two-bay group to the left. A boarded door with windows flanking sits to the left in the two-bay group to the right of centre. A boarded sliding door occupies the outer right. Windows are six-pane upper with blinded lower sashes. The roof is slated with a half-slated roof to the projection in the court, some ridge vents and 19th-century flush rooflights.

The north-west range contains a granary, threshing barn, bagging barn and power house. Its north-west elevation has ten bays grouped 1-3-1-1-3-1. An advanced and gabled projection (former power house) occupies the bay to the inner right; it formerly had a round-arched opening at ground to the left, now partly blinded with a window, and a window to the gablehead, with a boarded door to the north-east return and the base of a stack to the south-west return. A hay loft door with a gabled dormerhead sits above in the bay to the inner left, with a blinded door opening at ground to the left and a mid-20th-century corrugated shed added. A blinded window at first floor occupies the centre of the three-bay group to the left; a blinded segmental-arched opening at ground sits in the bay to the left with a blinded window at first floor above, and a blinded window at ground in the bay to the right. A blank bay occupies the centre of the three-bay group to the right with a boarded door in the bay to the left and a blinded window in the bay to the right. The slightly advanced gabled outer bays are much-altered; the outer left has a sliding double door at ground and a window to the gablehead above, while the outer right has a two-leafed boarded high opening. The south-east court elevation has bays grouped 2-1-6. A single bay positioned at the centre has a window at ground and a two-leaf boarded door to the hay loft opening above, breaking the eaves with a gabled dormerhead. Doors occupy each bay of the two-bay group (boarded in the bay to the right; modern flush door in the bay to the left). All openings in the six-bay group to the right are blinded (recently in 1996), which is irregular with windows at first floor of three bays to the right and a variety of doors and windows at ground. The roof is slated.

The south-west range contains a byre with an open court to the north-east. Its south-west elevation has five bays grouped 1-3-1. Two-leaf double boarded sliding doors occupy the centre and each bay except the bay to the outer right; a window sits to the outer of the three-bay group. The outer bays are slightly advanced and gabled with kneelers; the bay to the outer right has a window at ground level and each gablehead has a window. Ball finials crown each apex. The north-east court elevation has five bays. The centre bay and those immediately flanking have been recently altered with modern brick partitions and the original wall removed to form tractor sheds. Boarded doors occupy the outer bays. The roof is half-slated with 19th-century flush rooflights to the south-west.

A court range to the north-east in the court forms the court with the south-west range, with rubble coped walls positioned to either side of the outer extremes of the outer bays of the north-east elevation. Its south-west elevation has three regularly-disposed bays each with a segmental-arched opening. The north-east elevation has a two-leaf boarded door to a segmental-arched opening at the centre with boarded doors to each flanking bay. The north and south corners are chamfered and swept to square beneath the eaves. The roof is slated with a piended form and cat-slide vents to the north-east.

The court has setts in place, laid in 1996.