East Range, Steading, Bridgend Farm

East Range, Steading, Bridgend Farm

A mid to later 19th century steading with a quadrangular plan, extended to the south-east by a pair of cottages forming a T-plan addition. The main ranges vary in height: the south range rises to two storeys, while the east, north and west ranges are single storey. Construction is throughout of stugged sandstone rubble with punched dressings. The principal south elevation features crowstepped gables and dormer-headed windows, with sandstone chimney stacks.

South Range The south range contains a cartshed and granary. Its elevation is symmetrically arranged across seven bays. A slightly advanced gabled and finalled centre bay projects forward and contains a depressed arched carriage pend with a dovecote above. Blind windows occupy the ground floor to the right, while dormer-headed windows sit above. To the left are ground-floor windows in each bay, with a loading door at the centre, flanked by dormer-headed windows above.

The courtyard-facing north elevation has a segmental arched carriage pend at its centre, to the left of which is a four-bay segmental arched cartshed with two windows above. A door and window occupy the right side, with a further window at both ground and first floor to the far right.

The roof is of grey slate with ashlar coped skew off-centre to the left, bracketed skewputts, and diamond stacks rising to the gables. Windows include twelve-pane top hoppers to the south elevation. The granary windows have four-pane fixed upper lights with louvres to the lower portions.

East Range The east range contains a gig-house, hen-house, boiler and shed for light equipment. Its outer east elevation consists of four bays. A segmental arched opening serves the gig-house to the left. The hen-house has a door and steps to its right, with a single row of nesting boxes inside. To the far right are a window and door to the boiler-house, with a segmental-arched carriage opening serving an advanced gabled bay at the outer right.

On the courtyard-facing west elevation, a door from the boiler shed opens to the yard. The boiler-house window has boarded shutters to the lower portion and fixed glazing above. Doors are boarded, with two-leaf examples serving the sheds.

The roof is of red pantile with a reduced stack over the boiler house and ashlar coped skew.

North Range The north range contains stables. The courtyard-facing south elevation comprises six bays: four bays of stables with a door positioned off-centre to the right, two windows to the left, and a door at the far left. Two-leaf stable doors feature, one of which divides as a half door. A window and door occupy the right side with a further door to the outer right. A water trough is situated along this elevation.

Windows have boarded shutters to the lower portions with fixed glazing above, and louvres below fixed panes serving the stables. Two modern window replacements are evident. Doors are boarded. The roof is of red pantile with ashlar coped skews and a stack positioned to the right at the east end.

West Range The west range has been altered and formerly contained a straw shed. Its courtyard-facing east elevation has two arrowslits and a door at the far left. The roof is partly of slate and partly of asbestos, with a boarded door to the left.

Farm Cottages Two single-storey cottages of stugged sandstone rubble extend the steading to the south. Their south-facing entrance elevation is nearly symmetrical, with a later harled brick advanced gabled block at the centre featuring two windows and mock timber framing to the gable, an apex stack, a door and small window on each return, and a window to the right. An advanced gabled bay with a blind bipartite window and diamond apex stack occupies the outer right, with a window to the outer left.

The east side elevation has a door to the left. The rear north elevation includes a window in the advanced gabled bay to the left, a door on the return to the right, and a window to the far right.

Windows display a variety of glazing patterns. The roof combines grey and red pantiles with stacks to the centre and right, and beaked skewputts.

A range to the north of the quadrangular steading, formerly a byre, has been altered and enlarged, with a blocked feeding door evident on its east elevation.

The harled addition to the cottages, containing an entrance hall, scullery and lavatory, represents the type of necessary improvements typical of farm buildings in the 1920s.

Bridgend Farmhouse to the east is listed separately.