Whiterig

Whiterig is an 18th-century farmhouse with later additions and alterations. It is a symmetrical, two-storey building with a raised basement and attic, featuring five bays and classical detailing, and situated on a sloping site. The design is grouped as 2-1-2 across the front facade, with a flush, pedimented central bay, and single-storey wings at the rear, enclosing a service courtyard. The exterior is whitewashed harl with red sandstone dressings, some of which are partially harled. A moulded eaves course, quoins, and margins are also present.

The south-east (entrance) elevation includes steps that overhang the basement leading to a central entrance with stone treads and decorative iron balustrades. The ground floor has a timber panelled door with a plate glass fanlight, set within a corniced doorpiece flanked by engaged columns. A single window is positioned above at the first floor. A single window is centred within a segmental-arched attic opening in the surmounting pediment. Further single windows are located at ground and first floor levels within the remaining bays, with single windows positioned in the basement below.

The south-west (side) elevation displays a two-bay arrangement, with single windows at all floors in both bays. A section of the elevation is blank, adjoined by a single-storey range to the left.

The north-west (rear) elevation features a piended porch projecting from the basement, above which is a large, round-arched stair window and a blank rectangular panel. A modern window is present at basement level in the bay to the left, while a window at ground level has been blocked. Single windows are aligned at the first floor. To the right of centre, a single window is at basement level, with further single windows at both floors above. A modern garage door is situated in a single-storey, piended wing projecting to the outer right. A courtyard wall obscures a mono-pitched, single-storey range projecting to the outer left.

The north-east (side) elevation presents a two-bay house with single windows at ground and first floors in both bays, with one window blocked at first floor left. A square-headed doorway is in the adjacent single-storey range to the right, with a further single-storey projection to the outer right.

The building predominantly features 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, with an intersecting-traceried stair window at the rear, and small rooflights. The red tile piended roof has swept eaves, brick-built ridge stacks with circular cans, and cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interior was not inspected in 1999.

The courtyard walls are coped rubble walls, partially swept, and partially enclose the rear courtyard. Square-plan gatepiers of red sandstone flank the vehicular entrance, with pyramidal caps, though the original gate is missing.

To the west is an irregular-plan walled garden with heavily-pointed, rubble-coped walls, with red-brick inner linings in part, and a curved corner to the north.