Blackhouse Farmhouse

Blackhouse Farmhouse is likely from the late 18th century, with subsequent additions and alterations. It is a symmetrical, two-storey, three-bay farmhouse built in a plain classical style. A flat-roofed porch was added later and sits centrally at the front. A two-storey range and a single-storey wing with a hipped roof extend to the rear, forming an L-shape. A further single-storey, hipped block is located in the rear re-entrant angle.

The farmhouse is constructed of harl-pointed whinstone and sandstone rubble with cream sandstone dressings. Droved quoins and surrounds are visible around the windows and doors, along with projecting cills throughout.

The south-east (entrance) elevation features a timber-panelled door within the flat-roofed porch. A plate glass fanlight is above the door, framed by a rope-moulded surround. Recessed windows are located on the first floor, with single windows in the flanking bays at ground and first floor levels.

The south-west (side) elevation incorporates a full-height, two-bay gabled wing on the right, containing single windows on both floors. A recessed two-bay range sits to the left, featuring a stone-mullioned tripartite window on the ground floor in the right-hand bay, a single window aligned above it, and single windows on both floors in the bay to the left. A lower range to the outer left has a window on the ground floor and a timber door.

The north-west (rear) elevation showcases a projecting, hipped wing to the right with a lean-to addition to the front. A taller, hipped wing is positioned behind. The re-entrant angle contains a single-storey, hipped block with a blind elevation. A flat-roofed porch is recessed to the outer left. The main two-storey block is set behind with single windows on both floors.

The north-east (side) elevation shows a full-height, gabled wing offset to the left of centre with a single window at ground level in the right-hand bay. A single window is centred in the flat-roofed porch recessed to the outer left. A recessed two-storey wing is to the right, with a single-storey addition projecting at ground level; a single window is in the flat-roofed porch. A single-storey wing with an attic and a single bay sits to the outer right, featuring a boarded timber door at ground level and a gabled wallhead dormer above.

Most windows contain 12 panes within timber sash and case frames, with plate glass timber sash and case windows at ground floor to the front. Various rooflights are present. The roofs are covered in grey slate, with stone-coped skews and cast-iron rainwater goods. Corniced brick-built apex stacks rise from the roof, topped with circular cans.

The interior was not inspected in 1998.

Low rubble front walls are topped with round arches. Rubble-coped, harl-pointed rubble walls partially enclose the site, containing a single timber pedestrian gate. Quadrant walls flanking the vehicular entrance have squared coping and sandstone, square-plan gatepiers are capped with pyramids with a timber gate.