Eastern Cottage, Steading, Bridgend Farm

Eastern Cottage, Steading, Bridgend Farm

A mid to later 19th-century quadrangular steading with a pair of cottages forming a T-plan extension to the south-east. The complex comprises a 2-storey south range, single-storey east, north and west ranges, all constructed in stugged sandstone rubble with punched dressings. The principal south elevation features crowstepped gables and dormer-headed windows, with sandstone chimney stacks.

South Range

This range contains a cartshed and granary. The south elevation is symmetrically composed of seven bays. The slightly advanced gabled and finialised centre bay displays a depressed arched carriage pend with a dovecote above. Blind windows occupy the ground floor to the right, with dormer-headed windows above. Windows light each bay at ground level to the left, and a loading door at the centre is flanked by dormer-headed windows above. The courtyard-facing north elevation features a segmental arched carriage pend to the centre, with a four-bay segmental arched cartshed to the left lit by two windows above. A door and window at ground and first-floor levels occupy the right side. Roofing comprises grey slate with an ashlar coped skew set off-centre left, bracketed skewputts, and diamond-section chimney stacks to the gables. The granary windows retain original glazing: 12-pane top hoppers to the south elevation, and 4-pane fixed upper lights with louvres to the lower sections.

East Range

This range accommodates a gig-house, hen-house, boiler-house and shed for light equipment. The east elevation displays four bays with a segmental arched opening to the gig-house on the left. The hen-house entrance, accessed by steps, features a single row of nesting boxes inside. The boiler-house has a window and door, with a segmental-arched carriage opening to an advanced gabled bay on the outer right. The courtyard elevation has a door from the boiler shed. The boiler-house window retains boarded shutters to the lower section and fixed glazing above. The range has a red pantiled roof, a reduced chimney stack over the boiler-house, and an ashlar coped skew. Sheds have boarded 2-leaf doors.

North Range

Containing stables, this range has a six-bay courtyard elevation comprising four bays of stables with an off-centre right door. Two windows occupy the left side with a door to the outer left. Two-leaf stable doors, one of which divides as a half-door, face the yard. A window and door occupy the right side. A water trough is present. Boarded shutters to the lower sections and fixed glazing above characterise the fenestration, with louvres and fixed panes to the stable windows. Two windows are modern replacements. The roof is red pantiled with ashlar coped skews and a chimney stack to the right (east).

West Range

Formerly containing a straw shed, this range has been altered. The courtyard elevation has two arrow-slits and a door to the far left. Boarded doors remain, with slate roofing to the left and asbestos roofing to the right.

Farm Cottages

Two single-storey cottages in stugged sandstone rubble form the south-east extension. The south (entrance) elevation is nearly symmetrical, with a later harled brick advanced gabled block at the centre, containing two windows and mock timber framing within the gable and an apex chimney stack. Doors and small windows occupy each return, a window to the right, and a slightly advanced gabled bay with a blind bipartite window and diamond apex stack to the outer right. A window sits to the outer left. The east (side) elevation has a door to the left. The north (rear) elevation features a window in an advanced gabled bay to the left, a door on a return to the right, and a window to the far right. Glazing patterns vary throughout. The roof combines grey and red pantiled sections with chimney stacks to the centre and right, and beaked skewputts.

Range to North

A range to the north (rear) of the quadrangular steading has been altered and enlarged to accommodate a former byre, with a blocked feeding door evident on the east elevation. A harled addition to the cottages, typical of early 20th-century improvements to farm buildings, contains an entrance hall, scullery and lavatory and dates to the 1920s.

Bridgend Farmhouse to the east is listed separately.