Farmhouse, Home Farm, Glen Tanar House

Farmhouse, Home Farm, Glen Tanar House

This is a substantial and complex agricultural complex designed by George Truefitt around 1880. The buildings are constructed of squared and snecked granite with rough-faced dressings finely finished to margins, or coursed rough-faced granite, featuring characteristic crowstepped gables and long and short dressings to quoins.

Farmhouse Range

The principal U-plan farmhouse range consists of a 2-storey and attic, 3-bay main building with an asymmetrical southeast elevation. The ground floor has a small-pane glazed timber door at centre, flanked to the right by a window. The first floor contains windows to the centre and right bays. To the left, a projecting tripartite window extends through both ground and first floors, terminating in a crowstepped gable with spherical finial.

The northeast elevation is dominated by a single-storey, 6-bay range obscuring the farmhouse itself. This range features a boarded timber door with single-pane fanlight in the third bay from the right, flanked by windows. A pyramidal-roofed timber ventilator with fishscale slates and decorative ironwork thistle finial sits on the ridge of the outer left bay. A blank slightly recessed bay appears to the outer right. The elevation has 2 coped ridge stacks and a wallhead stack with circular cans.

The northwest elevation is asymmetrical with 3 bays. A 2-storey porch addition with dividing band course occupies the centre, featuring a boarded timber door with stained glass panels, flanked to the left by a window, and a stained glass window to the first floor. A piend-roofed 2-storey, 2-bay addition extends to the left with bipartite windows at ground and first floors, and a boarded timber door with glazed panel. Two canted dormers with 2-pane skylight light the attic floor.

The southwest elevation is near-symmetrical and gabled. Windows throughout the farmhouse are predominantly replacement timber casements with top hoppers, though some timber sash and case windows survive. The roof is covered in graded grey slate. Coped gablehead and wallhead stacks feature decorative caps, and cast-iron rainwater goods remain in places.

Single Storey Ancillary Structure

North of the farmhouse range stands a single-storey rectangular-plan structure with doorways flanked by tripartite horizontal openings. The fishscale-banded piended roof incorporates glazed and corrugated fibreglass plastic skylights. A coped boundary wall extends to the northeast and southwest.

Cattle Court and Granary Range Including Implement Shed

The cattle court complex forms an asymmetrical arrangement of functional agricultural buildings. The northwest elevation is dominated by a 4-bay granary block stepped-up to the right, with 2-leaf boarded timber doors below eaves, flanked by bipartite openings at ground floor level and tripartite openings above. A 3-light segmental arched window sits below crowsteps to the outer right. To the left, a 3-bay block features a 2-leaf boarded sliding door in a catslide roof with a pyramidal ventilator above.

The southwest elevation features a broad opening breaking eaves in a catslide roof, flanked by an infilled doorway, bipartite windows, and additional bipartite windows. A 5-bay addition extends to the left under a swept-down roof. A curved coped boundary wall forms an enclosure in front, and a gabled shelter with boarded timber gable is advanced to the right.

The southeast elevation is extensive and asymmetrical with 8 bays. A 3-bay granary block stepped-up to the left contains 2-light bipartite windows and a boarded timber sliding door, with a large fan above. Eight boarded openings run below eaves, and a hexagonal ventilator crowns the ridge. A 2-bay block advanced to centre has horizontal windows at ground floor and piend-roofed 4-pane dormers to the attic. A recessed 3-bay block to the outer right features a boarded timber door flanked by bipartite windows, with a bowed bay containing a glazed panelled timber door and bipartite leaded windows with decorative finial.

The northeast elevation comprises 2 bays with a gabled bay to the right containing a 2-light bipartite window off-centre, and large boarded openings to the gablehead. A wallhead stack sits to the left.

Windows throughout are predominantly timber single-pane pivoting lights. The roofs display varied patterns in purple-grey slate with piended sections and fishscale banding, lead ridges, and coped granite wallhead and ridge stacks with decorative caps. Cast-iron rainwater goods remain in places.

The implement shed to the north is piend-roofed with boarded timber sliding doors, rough-faced supporting columns, and timber partition walls. It is roofed in graded slate.

Additional Ancillary Structures

Southeast of the cattle court stands a single-storey, 3-bay rectangular-plan structure with small piend-roofed block. The granite is rough-faced, squared and snecked. A tripartite window in a gable breaks eaves to the northwest, flanked by boarded timber doors, with a band of windows to the southeast. The roof is purple-grey slate with fishscale banding and timber ventilator.

Southwest of the cattle court, a single-storey and attic rectangular-plan structure is attached to a single-storey block by a covered walkway, forming an H-plan with irregular fenestration and corrugated fibreglass and glazed skylights.

Northwest of this, a single-storey rectangular-plan block has irregular door and window openings, piended grey slate roof, and a tall octagonal coped stack breaking the pitch to the northeast.

Boundary Features

Variety of rough-faced coped boundary walls, steps, square-plan piers and gatepiers with semi-spherical caps define the boundaries of the complex.