North Range, Mid Edrom Farm

North Range, Mid Edrom Farm

An 18th-century classical steading with later additions and alterations, arranged in a U-plan with a southern range. The building is constructed from sandstone rubble with stugged ashlar dressings; some whinstone rubble is incorporated into the steading.

The South Range comprises a cartshed in a bay to the inner left (possibly a former entrance), a shed to the outer left, a hen house to the outer right adjoined to the north by a feeding barn, and a former open cattle court (now with a modern roof) in a further two-bay group to the outer right.

The South Elevation of this range shows four bays with a further two-bay group set back to the outer right. A coped screen wall in the inner right bay has a partly-blinded thermal opening with a timber-lintelled door. An advanced pedimented bay to the inner left features a blinded segmental arch with a small timber-lintelled window at ground level and two round-arched openings above, with timber flight holes installed in 1996. A round niche sits in the pediment above, flanked by acroteria. The outer left bay, similar but lower, contains a segmental-arched niche at ground with a blinded roundel set in the pediment. A single-storey bay to the outer left has a blinded thermal opening to the centre. The further two-bay group set back to the outer right has both bays blank with a gabled bay to the outer right.

The North Elevation shows an advanced bay to the inner right with an elliptical-arched opening at ground level in broadly-droved ashlar voussoirs and a two-leaf boarded door; above is a boarded round-arched opening at first floor. A window at ground level appears in the outer left bay of the west return. A blinded window opening at ground level sits in the outer right bay of the east return elevation. A door opening is set in the coped wall to the inner left bay. A single-storey bay to the outer right has a boarded door. A hen house projects to the north of the outer left bay with a timber-lintelled boarded door in the west return elevation, adjoined to the north by an advanced later half-slated barn with a two-leaf boarded door. A two-bay group to the outer left has a two-leaf boarded gate leading to the formerly open cattle court; a gabled bay to the outer left has a split boarded door.

The interior of the cattle court contains boarded and timber-lintelled feeding boles, timber hay hecks and troughs, and cast-iron supports to the west side supporting a lean-to roof.

The U-plan court to the north is bounded by gabled south elevations of the east and west ranges, formerly both with ashlar coped apex stacks (no longer present to the west range as of 1996). The walls are sandstone and whinstone rubble with stugged ashlar dressings, with some setts surviving in the court.

The East Range has a south elevation with a boarded door in the left bay and two blinded windows above with a point-arched blinded opening in the gablehead fronted by an ashlar ledge. A further later two-bay sandstone rubble addition with stugged ashlar dressings and a monopitch roof adjoins to the outer right, formerly with boarded doors to each bay. The east elevation is much altered, showing three blinded window openings to the centre with a boarded door to the left and a segmental-arched opening to the outer right. The west (court) elevation comprises five bays grouped two-three, with a boarded door to the centre of the three-bay group to the right, flanked by glazed and vented windows. A two-leaf boarded door with fanlight appears in the outer right bay, with stop-chamfered margins to the surround and a window in the left bay of the outer left two-bay group. The roof is graded slate with flush single and two-pane 19th-century rooflights and long cat-slide roof vents near the ridge. The interior contains a byre at the south end with stalls for milking and working horses' stabling at the north end.

The North Range shows a three-bay south elevation with a vented and glazed window opening to the centre and a two-leaf boarded door set near the eaves in the right bay. A door opening appears in the left bay with a further boarded door at first floor to the outer left with a modern forestair. The north elevation includes a ruinous horsemill with cast-iron supports and formerly a pantiled roof. A slate roof covers the south part, now ruinous to the west end, with some 19th-century rooflights present as of 1996. The interior, not seen in 1996, formerly contained a threshing barn and bagging barn.

The West Range has a south elevation with blinded windows at ground level to the outer bays and a large modern two-leaf sliding boarded door to the centre. The west elevation comprises five bays with a round-arched blinded opening at ground level in a slightly advanced pedimented bay to the centre and a round blinded opening to the pediment. Windows at ground to first floor appear in each flanking bay. The east elevation shows seven bays grouped to the right, with a modern forestair to the outer right. A window appears at each floor in the penultimate right bay, blinded at ground. A blinded segmental-arched opening with a later now-blinded door occupies the inner right bay, with a partly-blinded window at first floor and a gable above. Blinded windows appear at each floor to the centre and to each bay to the left of centre, narrow in the inner left bay, with a blank bay to the outer left. The north elevation incorporates a rubble arch near ground for a former lade. The slate roof is now in poor repair as of 1996. The interior formerly comprised a two-bay farm house to the south (referring to the west elevation), with bays to the north of centre used for stabling hunters; both are now much altered, forming a barn.