Farm Cottages

Blairmore Farm demonstrates the development of farm buildings throughout the 19th century, with a farm on the site since at least the early 19th century. The farm was formalised and improved during the 19th century, and further developed in the late 19th century when the Benmore Estate changed hands, resulting in the construction of several outbuildings in concrete.

The farmhouse incorporates an early 19th-century block at the rear, visible as a separate two-storey, three-bay structure. A more formal mid-19th-century facade was added to the front, consisting of two storeys and three bays with canted full-height outer bays and a central gablet.

Around the same time, a courtyard was created to the rear, including a long stone-built range parallel to the house and a short S range, now with a corrugated asbestos roof.

Most buildings were constructed of concrete in the 1870s, including a long S range with a hayloft on the first floor and additions to the N, containing stables opening onto a cobbled yard. A large timber-framed byre, supported on cast iron columns, originally occupied the new N and S range courtyard but has since been demolished, leaving just the columns. 20th-century additions include corrugated iron sheds.

The farmhouse retains interior features such as an arched marble fireplace, a timber stair with cast iron balusters, and original joinery. To the S of the farm buildings is a pair of semi-detached, L-plan concrete cottages with piended slate roofs and S-facing bipartite timber sash and case windows; their interiors were not inspected during the 2004 survey. The farmhouse is constructed of stone rubble with sandstone dressings, and has slate roofs, timber doors and windows, stone ridge-stacks, and clay cans. Farm buildings are of stone and concrete, with predominantly slate roofs, some corrugated iron and asbestos replacement, and timber boarded doors and windows.