South Range, Steading, Bridgend Farm

South Range, Steading, Bridgend Farm

A mid to later 19th-century steading of quadrangular plan, 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, and associated farm cottages.

The main steading is built in stugged sandstone rubble with punched dressings. The south range features crowstepped gables and dormer-headed windows on its principal elevation, with sandstone stacks.

The south range contains a cartshed and granary. Its south elevation is symmetrically composed of seven bays with a slightly advanced gabled and finalled centre bay. This bay contains a depressed arched carriage pend with a dovecote above, blind windows at ground level to the right, and dormer-headed windows above. Windows serve each bay at ground level to the left, with a loading door at the centre flanked by dormer-headed windows above. The north courtyard elevation shows a segmental arched carriage pend to the centre, a 4-bay segmental arched cartshed to the left with 2 windows above, and a door to the right with a window at ground and first floor level to the far right. The windows feature 12-pane top hoppers to the south elevation, and 4-pane fixed upper panes with louvres to the lower granary windows. The roof is grey slate with ashlar coped skews off-centre left, bracketed skewputts, and diamond stacks to the gables.

The east range contained a gig-house, hen-house, boiler and shed for light equipment. Its east elevation comprises four bays with a segmental arched opening to the gig-house on the left; the hen-house entrance door is set with steps and contains a single row of nesting boxes inside. A window and door serve the boiler-house to the far right, with a segmental-arched carriage opening to an advanced gabled bay at the outer right. The west courtyard elevation has a door from the boiler shed to the yard, boarded shutters and fixed glazing to the boiler-house window, boarded doors (2-leaf to sheds), a red pantiled roof, a reduced stack over the boiler house, and ashlar coped skews.

The north range housed stables. Its south courtyard elevation comprises six bays: four bays serving the stables with an off-centre right door, 2 windows to the left, a door to the outer left, 2-leaf stable doors (one of which divides as a half door), and a window to the right with a door to the outer right. A water trough is present. Boarded shutters and fixed glazing to the lower sections are complemented by louvres to the lower and fixed panes to the upper sections of the stable windows, with 2 modern replacements and boarded doors. The roof is red pantiled with ashlar coped skews and a stack to the right (east).

The west range has been altered and formerly contained a straw shed. Its east courtyard elevation displays 2 arrowslits and a door to the far left. A boarded door and slate roof occupy the left section, with an asbestos roof elsewhere.

Two farm cottages are single-storey structures in stugged sandstone rubble. The south entrance elevation is nearly symmetrical, featuring a later harled brick advanced gabled block at centre with 2 windows and mock timber framing to the gable, an apex stack, and a door and small window on each return. A window to the right precedes a slightly advanced gabled bay with a blind bipartite window and a diamond apex stack to the outer right; a window serves the outer left. The east side elevation has a door to the left. The north rear elevation contains a window in an advanced gabled bay to the left, a door on the return to the right, and a window to the far right. The cottages display a variety of glazing patterns, with grey and red pantiled roofs, stacks to the centre and right, and beaked skewputts.

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 its east elevation.

A harled addition to the cottages containing an entrance hall, scullery and lavatory was added in the 1920s and represents typical necessary improvements to farm buildings of that period.

Bridgend Farmhouse to the east is listed separately.