Gardiesting House, Mid Yell, Yell

Gardiesting House is a building likely dating from around 1645, with subsequent alterations and additions. It is an L-shaped group of buildings situated in Mid Yell. The core of the house is a two-storey and attic, three-bay haa, its principal elevation facing a sunken yard to the south. Attached to the west gable are two further two-storey buildings, one a late 19th-century former shop that runs along the west side of the yard, and an adjoining former bakery building. A gabled barn stands in a field to the southwest.

The main house has harled walls, with droved ashlar and painted window surrounds. The west range has walls of harl-pointed rubble, and the barn’s walls are of random rubble. The shop’s walls are also of harl-pointed rubble. Modern glazing has been installed in the house.

The south elevation of the house is symmetrical, featuring a single-storey gabled porch built in the 1920s, clad in corrugated sheeting, located centrally at ground level. Windows flank the porch, and regular fenestration is visible on the first floor. The east gable has two bays with deeply-set windows on the first floor, and a single attic window is set into the gablehead to the left. A modern lean-to addition obscures the centre bay of the north elevation, with a small window to the left and blank space to the right. First-floor windows are located in the centre and left bays, with a blank bay to the right. The west gable is hidden by the attached west range.

The shop’s north elevation has two bays, with a six-pane fixed-light window to the left and a two-leaf vertically-boarded timber door with plate glass fanlight to the right. The west elevation displays a two-leaf vertically-boarded timber and glazed door to the right of centre, adjacent to a brick forestair that leads to a vertically-boarded loft door set within a cat-slide dormerhead. A single four-pane timber sash and case window overlooks the yard.

The bakery building has infilled windows on the east (yard) elevation, with a nine-pane fixed-light window and a vertically-boarded loft door centrally positioned on the south gable. The west elevation of the bakery is obscured by a corrugated-iron lean-to addition.

The roof of the house and the shop is covered in purple-grey slate, with the shop’s roof piended at the northwest corner. The bakery’s roof is clad in corrugated sheet. The buildings have concrete skew-copes, and the principal gablehead stacks have harled walls, stone copes, and circular cans. The north gable of the bakery has a harl-pointed rubble stack with a cope and circular can.

The barn is a plain gabled rubble building with a central entrance door on the north elevation, and a corrugated-iron roof.