Hartside Farmhouse And Steading

Earlier 19th century. 2-storey, 3-bay, roughly square'plan, complex piend-roofed farmhouse with advanced piended central bay to entrance (E) elevation. Fine plain pilastered doorpiece and console-bracketed pentice canopies to principal ground floor windows. Base course and banded eaves course, with overhanging stone eaves course. Coursed whinstone rubble with droved sandstone quoins. Stone cills and margined surrounds to windows.

Lying-pain style Upvc windows, two original timber mullioned lying-pane windows survive to NE room. 4-panelled bi-fold timber entrance door with glazed pen light over. Fine, tall, part-chamfered, corniced, diamond stacks with clay cans. Plain slate roof.

INTERIOR: plan form consisting of a rectangular-plan main house to the front with recessed bays leading to a separate, slightly lower, 2-storey service wing to rear incorporating separate stair. Some good interior decorative details including turned stair with decorative cast iron balusters; elliptical glazed rooflight over and some fire surrounds.

STEADING: square-plan piended roofed steading to W of house with single entrance with round capped ashlar entrance piers to SE corner and taller 2-storey former mill to centre of W range. Small squared upper windows and 3 (infilled) cart openings to former mill. Workers cottage with central ridge stack forming E end of S range.