Steading, Crunklaw House

This is a mid-19th century steading, arranged in a U-shape and located to the northwest of Crunklaw farmhouse. A turnip shed/midden, a former open cattle court, and a former cartshed and granary are also part of the complex. The steading is constructed from whinstone and sandstone rubble, with tooled ashlar dressings.

The southwest range, formerly a byre and now a stable, has a crowstepped gable on its southeast side, featuring a point-arched arrowslit window at the gablehead. Its southwest elevation is blank, while the northeast elevation has six bays, although these have been altered in recent years to create new openings. A doorway is present in each bay except the two penultimate bays. The northwest elevation is piended and contains a sliding boarded door. The roof is slate, with a continuous cat-slide vent near the ridge, and flush 19th-century skylights on the southwest side.

The northwest range, formerly byres, is slightly set back from the southwest range. Arrowslits are located in the outer bays of its northwest elevation, while a boarded door is situated to the left of the centre. The southeast elevation has four bays with broadly-spaced segmental-arched openings in the inner bays, a boarded door on the outer left, and a door opening to the outer right. A rubble open-court wall projects between the inner and outer bays. This range also has a slate roof with a cat-slide vent near the ridge at its northeast end.

The northeast range is single-storeyed on its southeast side and two-storeys on its northwest end. The southeast elevation features a crowstepped gable with a double door opening under a timber lintel at ground level and a point-arched arrowslit opening at the gablehead. The northeast elevation comprises a grouped 3-2 bay arrangement. The two-storey, two-bay group to the right was originally a threshing barn, with a blinded window at ground level in the right-hand bay and a window at the first floor above. A window is located at the first floor of the bay to the left (the ground floor is not visible). There’s a possible indication of a stack flue entry to the threshing barn on the outer left. A single-storey projection, formerly a power house (now with a collapsed roof), is positioned in the bay to the right of the single-storey group. A possible former open court existed in the re-entrant angle, with a segmental-arched opening to the southeast return elevation. The southwest elevation contains a door to the outer left, of the single-storey group (possibly a former bagging barn), and a ground-floor door in the bay to the right of the two-storey group, with a non-aligned window at the first floor. A window is present on each floor of the bay to the left. The northwest elevation is gabled with coped ashlar skew and includes a deep-set door at ground level and an opening at the first floor of the bay to the right. This range has a modern corrugated roof.

The turnip shed/midden is situated between the southwest and northeast ranges and is a square plan, single-storey building with a piended half-slated roof and a two-leaf boarded door on the southeast side. The cattle court wall, previously surrounding the court, is now partially demolished, with rubble and coping. This area is now covered by a modern corrugated shed roof.

The cartshed and granary, located to the southwest of the main steading, are constructed from harl-pointed whinstone and sandstone rubble with droved ashlar dressings. The northeast elevation is five bays long, with segmental-arched cartshed openings (now with modern glazing) and a window at the first floor above each bay, except for a boarded door at ground level in the outermost left bay. The southwest elevation has four bays, with a window at the first floor in each bay. The roof is slate.