Bigton House, Bigton

Bigton House is a country house dated 1788. It is a two-storey and attic building constructed with a 'L' shaped plan, featuring single-storey, lean-to wings attached to the east and north gables. The walls are of harled rubble, with dressed ashlar surrounds to the windows and doors.

The south elevation is symmetrical with three bays. A single-storey, single-bay lean-to wing, which was formerly gabled, partially fills the former entrance doorway in the centre bay. This wing has a cornice with a moulded architrave and a frieze inscribed "J B S 1788.” Regular window placement is found in the flanking bays and on the first floor. The centre window has a keystone above the lintel, while the flanking windows have rounded, projecting cills. A single-storey, single-bay lean-to wing, originally gabled, is located to the right.

The west (entrance) elevation is asymmetrical with four bays, and includes a single-storey, single-bay lean-to wing, formerly gabled, to the left. An advanced two-bay end gable of the south range is on the right. The fenestration is regular with projecting curved margins at ground level and curved cills and keystoned lintels at the first floor. A recessed two-bay section is on the left, with a polished and droved ashlar single-storey entrance porch in the re-entrant angle. A tripartite window with a radial fanlight is present on the west side of the porch, and a vertically boarded timber door with a radial fanlight is on the north side. Regular window placement is evident in the left bay and first floor, with a tripartite window at the first floor in the left bay.

The east (rear) elevation has an advanced blank gable on the left, a lean-to wing at ground level (formerly a milk house), and a recessed three-bay elevation to the right. The bay to the left has smaller windows, the ground floor bays to the right are blank. A lean-to wing, formerly with a pyramidal roof, is immediately to the right and has modern glazing. A single-bay, single-storey lean-to wing extends to the right.

The windows are mainly timber sash and case with 12 panes, 4 panes in the centre bay of the south elevation and tripartite on the west elevation. The porch has lying panes, and the west gable has modern glazing. The principal roof pitches are covered in purple grey slate, while the lean-to wings have corrugated sheet cladding. Harled and coped apex stacks with circular cans are present on each gable.

A coped, random rubble, L-shaped wall encloses the garden adjacent to the east side of the house. A rubble-walled garden runs along the east side of the approach to the farm. Stugged sandstone piers mark the corners, and are also located at two gateways on the west side and one in the centre of the north side.