Steading, Nethernbarns Farmhouse

Nethernbarns Farmhouse is an early 19th-century farmhouse, possibly incorporating earlier fabric, with later alterations and a substantial steading range. The farmhouse is two-storey and attic, six bays long and rectangular in plan, originally comprising two dwellings. It features irregularly disposed windows, a later stone canted window flanking a decorative timber porch, a tall stair window at the rear, and 20th-century rectangular dormers with slated cheeks. The exterior is painted rendered stonework with droved red sandstone surrounds. A small brick lean-to outhouse and a tall, curved rubble wall extend forward from the southwest gable.

The windows are mostly 4-pane timber sash and case windows, with some replacements. The roof is grey slate with a lead ridge, and there are rendered, squared rubble end and ridge stacks topped with short clay cans. The rainwater goods are a mixture of cast-iron and plastic.

The main section of the house (northeast side) has a good later 19th-century decorative scheme, including a decorative cornice in the principal rooms. A tall window illuminates the curved main stair, and earlier timber panelled working shutters are present. A former separate dwelling to the southwest contains a raised stone range surround in the kitchen with a small, curved timber stair leading to the first floor. The first floor of this dwelling was linked to the upper floor of the steading range to the rear, which has since been converted into studio and office space in 2005.

Extensive steadings are situated to the northwest of the farmhouse. They form a predominantly single-storey U-plan range creating an open courtyard to the rear, with a two-storey section attached to the farmhouse on the southeast side. A two-storey, four-bay freestanding stable range stands within the courtyard, featuring a concrete forestair to the north gable. The northwest range of the courtyard continues to the southwest, forming a sixteen-bay, single-storey range with arrow slits, boxed ridge ventilators, skylights, whinstone voussoirs, and open brick stalls to the southeast elevation. A separate, earlier 20th-century brick dairy block with a piended roof is also located within the open courtyard to the southeast. The steading buildings are predominantly constructed of whinstone rubble with roughly hewn quoins, slate roofs, and lead ridges.

An earlier 20th-century stable cottage was created by converting the north corner of the courtyard. It has a piended roof, painted whinstone walls, and 12-pane timber sash and case windows with brick surrounds.