Littleburn Farmhouse

Littleburn Farmhouse is a substantial farmhouse, likely built in the late 17th century with early 18th-century additions, and was refronted in the mid-19th century. It features a sandstone ashlar front with coursed rubble on the sides and rear, a Welsh slate roof, and rebuilt brick chimneys. The left rear wing has a roof covered in concrete ridged tiles. The building has a reversed U-plan with two attached rear wings that enclose a small yard.

The two-storey front has four wide bays, with ground and first-floor bands. There is a 20th-century wooden door with a two-pane overlight in the second bay, paired four-pane sash windows in the end bays, and a blocked window in the third bay. Above, there are two six-pane sashes flanked by paired four-pane sashes. The steeply-pitched roof features swept eaves, coped gables, shaped kneelers, and end chimneys. The two-storey, two-bay rear wing to the left has replaced 20th-century windows and a steeply-pitched roof with a central ridge chimney. The inner wall facing the yard has a boarded door in a partly-blocked segmental-arched opening. The tall single-storey, two-bay rear wing to the right has a boarded door in a surround with chamfered, alternating jambs and a steeply-pitched roof.

Inside, there is a 17th-century chamfered stone doorway with ogee stops behind the entrance hall. An early 18th-century closed-string dogleg staircase has four flights plus a landing rail, turned balusters, and a ramped handrail. The first-floor front passage features high-quality early 18th-century two-panel oak panelling with a dado rail, cornice, and eight-panel doors in architraves. Similar panelling and early 18th-century moulded stone chimneypieces are found in the right and left front bedrooms. The right bedroom also includes two walls of late 17th-century small square panelling and a mid-18th-century cast-iron fire grate. There is a late 17th-century eight-panel door leading to the attic. Circa 1900 metalwork includes wall lamps in the entrance hall and firehoods in the ground-floor drawing and dining rooms.

Later additions in the yard against the inner wall of the right wing are not of special interest.