Western Cottage, Steading, Bridgend Farm

Western Cottage, Steading, Bridgend Farm

A mid to later 19th-century steading on a quadrangular plan, with a pair of cottages forming a T-plan extension to the south-east. The main ranges are constructed of stugged sandstone rubble with punched dressings and feature crowstepped gables and dormer-headed windows on the principal south elevation, with sandstone chimney stacks throughout.

The south range is 2-storey and contains a cartshed and granary. Its south elevation is symmetrically arranged across 7 bays, with a slightly advanced gabled and finialied centre bay containing a depressed arched carriage pend and a dovecote above. Blind windows occupy the ground floor to the right, while dormer-headed windows sit above. The ground floor to the left has windows to each bay, with a loading door at the centre flanked by dormer-headed windows above. The north (courtyard) elevation features a segmental arched carriage pend to the centre, a 4-bay segmental arched cartshed to the left with 2 windows above, a door to the right, and a window at ground and first-floor levels to the far right. The south elevation incorporates 12-pane top hopper windows and 4-pane fixed upper lights with louvred lower sections to the granary windows. A grey slate roof is finished with ashlar coped skews set off-centre to the left, bracketed skewputts, and diamond chimney stacks to the gables.

The east range contains a gig-house, hen-house, boiler and shed for light equipment. Its east elevation comprises 4 bays with a segmental arched opening to the gig-house on the left; the hen-house is accessed by a door and steps to the right and contains a single row of nesting boxes inside. A window and door serve the boiler-house at the far right, with a segmental-arched carriage opening to an advanced gabled bay at the outer right. The west (courtyard) elevation includes a door from the boiler shed to the yard, boarded shutters to the lower part and fixed glazing to the upper part of the boiler-house window, boarded 2-leaf doors to the sheds, a red pantiled roof, a reduced chimney stack over the boiler house, and ashlar coped skews.

The north range contains stables. Its south (courtyard) elevation is arranged across 6 bays: 4 bays to the stables with a door set off-centre to the right, 2 windows to the left, a door to the outer left, and 2-leaf stable doors, one of which divides as a half door. A window and door are positioned to the right and outer right respectively, with a water trough present. The stables feature boarded shutters to the lower part with fixed glazing above, louvres to the lower part and a fixed pane to the upper part, 2 modern window replacements, and boarded doors. A red pantiled roof is finished with ashlar coped skews and a chimney 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, with a boarded door and slate roof to the left and an asbestos roof elsewhere.

The two farm cottages are single-storey structures of stugged sandstone rubble. Their south (entrance) elevation is near symmetrical, featuring a later harled brick advanced gabled block with 2 windows and mock timber framing to the gable at its centre, an apex chimney stack, a door and small window on each return, a window to the right, and a slightly advanced gabled bay with a blind bipartite window and diamond apex chimney stack to the outer right; a window is positioned to the outer left. The east (side) elevation has a door to the left, whilst the north (rear) elevation includes 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. The cottages incorporate a variety of glazing patterns and are roofed in grey and red pantiles with chimney 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; a feeding door on the east elevation remains blocked.

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

Bridgend Farmhouse to the east is listed separately.