Dean Howl Farmhouse And Buildings Attached

Dean Howl Farmhouse and the attached buildings date from around 1700, with some alterations made in the mid-18th century and early 19th-century additions. The structures are built of coursed sandstone rubble, featuring quoins and ashlar dressings. The main farmhouse has a stone-flagged roof, while the extensions have a Welsh slate roof and renewed brick chimneys.

The main house is two storeys high with three bays, and it is accompanied by a hind's cottage and byre on the right, which are also two storeys but with two bays. There is an additional byre to the right that has two lower storeys and three bays, while the left dairy is set back and has two storeys and two bays, making a total of ten bays across the complex.

The three-bay house has a central door with multiple panels and a four-pane overlight beneath a flat stone lintel. Flanking the door are 16-pane sash windows, also with flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills. Above, there are similar sashes, including a central 12-pane sash, all featuring stone sills. The left side has a wide wood lintel, while the centre and right have concrete lintels. The hind's cottage and byre have flat stone lintels over two boarded doors, and there is one in the dairy as well. The windows vary, including sash windows with glazing bars in the cottage, a late 19th-century sash on the first floor of the dairy, and hit-and-miss and glazed windows in the byre and dairy. The house has a chimney on an external stack at the left end and another on the ridge at the right of the three-bay section.

Inside, most doors in the house feature six or three raised-and-fielded panels with L-hinges. There is a high, panelled salt-cupboard door with butterfly hinges in the right room, while the left room has a narrow door in the centre of the rear wall, likely a former stair-ladder door. The dogleg stair has a flushed balustrade and a ramped grip handrail. There is a narrow panelled passage door to the left of the landing, and a high, now inaccessible row of pegs on the right side of the landing, indicating that the stair may have been added later. A plain square central longitudinal beam on the ground floor supports a ceiling with a moulded stucco cornice in the left room and rough floor joists in the right room.