Hallgarth Farmhouse

Hallgarth Farmhouse is a house, which at one time served as an inn, dating to circa 1700 with alterations around 1800. It is constructed of large sandstone rubble with quoins and ashlar dressings, and has a Welsh slate roof with a stone ridge, gable copings, and 20th-century brick chimneys. The house is two storeys high, with five windows, and a one-storey, one-bay addition to the left. A central 20th-century panelled door is sheltered by a corniced lintel. The windows are late 19th-century sashes with flat stone lintels and sills. Gable copings are supported by moulded kneelers. End chimneys are present.

The left addition has a blank, flat-topped wall facing the front, while the return has a 19th-century window set within a flat stone lintel and sill. The returns of the main house each feature a four-pane sash window set against the gable peak. A rear central door provides access, and a two-light horizontal sliding sash window with glazing bars to the right of the door has a flat stone lintel and sill. The first-floor sashes have 19th-century lintels and projecting stone sills.

It is likely the entire building was raised at the eaves and the rear extended around 1800; a butt joint in the right return gable is not clearly mirrored in the left return, though render and repairs have obscured evidence.

The interior features a central dogleg staircase that continues into the roof space, with a moulded panelled handrail, square newels with caps and simple pendants, a moulded closed string. The lower flights have a boxed-in balustrade, while the top flight has column-and-vase balustrades. A gallery in the roof incorporates skittle balusters above the stair head and plainer turned balusters elsewhere. The handrail is plain on the inner face at the top, with upper newels similarly plain. The balustrade and moulding of the handrail diminish to accommodate the rising balustrade at each junction. A ground-floor room to the right of the stair has cupboards with shaped shelves and raised fielded panelling throughout, topped by a deeply-moulded cornice. The painted chimney-piece features a lugged surround below a fretwork detail, frieze, and a large cornice; a pulvinated frieze sits above the door to the hall. The hall has an inserted wall, curved to avoid a window, to the left of the door, alongside an 18th-century door to a cupboard below the stairs, and a segmental arch to the rear of the house. A first-floor room to the right of the stair has panelling on the right gable wall, with cupboards flanking the fire. The ground floor rear room, and the rear hall which supports the staircase, are plainer. Ground-floor doors are of six fielded panels in architraves, while first-floor doors in the front part of the house are two-panel doors in architraves. The rear rooms have doors of six flat panels. Reportedly, underdrawn beams exist on both floors.

A partial roof inspection revealed queen-post roofs in two front rooms, with run-out chamfers on the narrow rafters, purlins, and posts.

The cellar was not inspected. An asbestos-roofed outbuilding attached to the right is not considered to be of special interest.