Greenhead Farmhouse And Outbuilding Attached

Farmhouse. Dating largely from the 17th century, with later alterations, Greenhead Farmhouse is constructed of roughly-coursed and squared sandstone and limestone, with a plinth, quoins, and ashlar dressings. It has a stone-flagged roof with stone gable copings. The main farmhouse is three storeys high and consists of three bays, while a one-storey, two-bay extension is attached to the right. A renewed door is located to the left of the one-storey section, set within a moulded, flat Tudor-arched surround. The original section has five-light, single-chamfered stone-mullioned windows, each under a drip mould, with inserted fixed lights. The left window has vertical iron bars in two lights. A central first-floor three-light window is flanked by four-light windows, and there are two second-floor two-light windows, all in a similar style. Stone-bracketed eaves and corniced ashlar end chimneys, which have a further set-back on the gable copings resting on ogee-moulded kneelers, complete the exterior. The right extension features a twelve-pane sash window under a flat stone lintel and a three-pane overlight, along with a blocked narrow door, a small opening, and a ridge chimney. The rear elevation incorporates a stair wing with two two-light windows, the lower of which is blocked, and a flat Tudor-arched surround to a door opposite the main entrance.

Inside, flat Tudor-arched stone doorways lead to the main room, the stair wing, and from the stair wing to the first floor. Chimney pieces of a similar shape are present on both floors, with that on the second floor to the left featuring a stepped centre moulding. One upper fireplace has a smaller, simpler flat Tudor-arched chimney piece inserted, containing a partly removed Regency grate. A pin-hung, ledged and boarded, studded door leads to the main room. Large, reverse ogee-stopped chamfered beams are also present. The close-string staircase has stone lower steps, with a round-topped moulded handrail, featuring three simple grooves for grip on wide stick balusters, and square newels. During a restoration period, a tenoned foot of a central upper cruck was revealed between the first and second floors, although no other parts of the upper crucks were visible, and the roof had been renewed.