Scripton Farmhouse With Adjoining Dairy/Cheeseroom

A mid-19th century farmhouse, originally built for the Brancepeth Estate, with an adjoining dairy/cheeseroom. The farmhouse, now divided into two dwellings, is constructed of squared sandstone in narrow courses, with ashlar dressings. It has graduated green slate roofs and ashlar chimney stacks. The building is in a Tudor style. The main farmhouse block is accompanied by a dairy on its left side. The farmhouse's front elevation is two-storey and three bays wide, with the central bay projecting and cross-gabled. The end bays each contain two openings. The windows are set in chamfered surrounds, with a panelled door to the right and a narrow four-pane sash window to the left. Twelve-pane sashes are found elsewhere. A small, round-arched, louvred opening, sheltered by a dripmould, is located within the gable of the central bay. There is a small gable above the first-floor window of the left bay. The steeply-pitched roof has overhanging eaves, exposed rafter ends, and verges with pierced bargeboards. A transverse chimney is at the left end, and there are central ridge chimneys with tall, octagonal stacks. A two-storey, cross-gabled wing protrudes from the right rear of the farmhouse, featuring similar detailing. The one-story, octagonal dairy has twelve-pane sashes and a steeply-pitched pyramidal roof with overhanging, bracketed eaves. It includes a central, louvred octagonal lantern with a pyramidal roof and a spike finial. Twentieth-century additions to the rear of the farmhouse on the left side are considered to be of no particular interest.