Ayton Mains

In style of William J Gray, architect, Coldingham, circa 1870 with later additions and alterations. Asymmetrical 2-storey, 3-bay Tudor-gabled farmhouse with gabled projection to front; lower wing at rear forming near Z-plan; single storey addition to side. Harl-pointed rubble; red sandstone dressings. Base course; moulded eaves in part. Stugged sandstone quoins; raised, tabbed and chamfered margins; chamfered cills; painted sandstone mullions. Gabled dormerheads to 1st floor windows breaking eaves.

SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: timber panelled door centred at ground; plate glass fanlight; bipartite window breaking eaves above. Bipartite window at ground in bay to outer left; bipartite window breaking eaves above. Full-height gabled wing projecting to right with tripartite window centred at ground; bipartite window aligned at 1st floor; small attic light above. Boarded timber door in single storey addition recessed to outer right.

NW (SIDE) ELEVATION: 2-bay gabled range with bipartite windows at both floors in both bays flanking centre. Lower, 2-bay wing to left with bipartite windows at both floors in both bays (breaking eaves at upper floor with single gablehead). Blind elevation to full-height projection recessed to outer right.

NE (REAR) ELEVATION: main block with bipartite window centred at ground; bipartite window breaking eaves above. Bipartite window at ground in bay to left; bipartite window breaking eaves above. Lower, 2-storey projection to outer right with boarded timber door at ground off-set to left of centre. Single storey addition to outer left.

Predominantly lying-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; stone-coped skews; moulded skewputts. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Corniced, brick-built apex stacks to SE and NW (linked flues); circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1999.

GARDEN WALLS, QUADRANT WALLS AND GATEPIERS: rubble-coped rubble walls enclosing site. Rubble quadrant walls flanking entrance with tooled red sandstone quoins; square-plan, stop-chamfered, red sandstone gatepiers; 2-leaf timber gate.