Building record MAB21387 - HOME FARM, ELRICK HOUSE

Farmstead, now derelict, built in the 18th and 19th centuries as the home farm within Elrick House designed landscape (NJ81NE0077).

Farmstead, now derelict, built in the 18th and 19th centuries as the home farm within Elrick House designed landscape (NJ81NE0077). It is shown on historic OS maps as a U-plan steading open to the south. Current OS maps show an additions to the east range, and a section of the north range is depicted as a ruin. The northern range is single-storey and attic, and is constructed from coursed squared rubble. The section to the west is a house, with a central door and windows including a piended dormer. The section to the east, now a ruin, has four lintelled cartshed openings, a dormer loft door and three square openings below the eaves. The roofs, where remaining, are slated with straight skews. The ranges to the east and west are lower and single-storey. The range to the west has a slated roof, and the range to the east has a corrugated roof. A low front wall has a central gateway. Standing building survey was carried out by MAS in January 2022 ahead of proposed works. The steading is on a U-plan with a low wall across the open side, the dwelling house forming part of the north range, facing into the court. Built of well-coursed squared rubbly stone on the south front. The house has a brick chimney at its west gable. The east end of the north range was cart bays (latterly used for livestock) with loft above. The east range provided a byre, the taller building at the south end of this range added after 1900 as a stables. The west range had been in use for storage and no original features were evident. Although much of the stonework was of good quality squared rubble stone, in three places the work incorporated stone that appeared to have been reused from another, superior, building, The lintel over a door in the north range may have been a step from a spiral stair. Two lintels and rybats in the east range east elevation have elaborate margins suggesting derivation from another building.

Period Notes
Listed 11/09/1984. Built in the 18th and 19th centuries.

MURRAY ARCHAEOLOGICAL SERVICES, 2022, ELRICK FAR STEADING, NEW MACHAR: STANDING BUILDING SURVEY, SBS (Bibliographic reference). SAB7573.

Record last edited

Nov 24 2022 12:27PM