Christon Bank Farmhouse

Christon Bank Farmhouse is a house dating from the early 18th century, possibly incorporating older materials, with later extensions from the late 18th century. The building is rendered, except for the squared tooled stone on the left return and the rubble outshut. The roof has a front slope covered in mixed blue and green slates, while the rear is finished with Welsh slates. There are 20th-century white brick stacks.

The south elevation features two storeys and is composed of three bays on the right and five bays on the left. The oldest section on the right has a central renewed door and 12-pane sash windows, except for two 4-pane sashes on the ground floor to the right. The left section also contains 12-pane sashes, all with slightly projecting sills. The building has banded end and two ridge stacks. The left return includes a pent outbuilding with two boarded doors and a 12-pane attic sash, while the right return shows a small attic window. The rear outshut has two flush-panelled doors, one with a three-pane overlight, and several small-paned sashes, with raised stone surrounds on several openings.

Inside, the farmhouse features fielded-panel doors throughout. The east drawing room has an early 18th-century panelled wall with two-panel cupboard doors and fluted pilasters flanking a late 18th-century Gothick fireplace. The west drawing room contains a stone fireplace with an architrave, swell frieze, and mantel, along with a dentil cornice. An old kitchen fireplace at the west end of the house has a cambered timber lintel. A closed-string dogleg stair in the outshut, likely re-assembled in the late 18th or 19th century, features urn-on-vase balusters, a ramped moulded handrail, and square panelled newels. The bedrooms have simple 18th-century fireplaces. The extension has a collared common-rafter roof with tenoned and pegged collars and carpenter's numbering, while the early 18th-century section has a later common-rafter roof with halved and nailed collars.

Historically, the eastern part of the house may have been constructed shortly after Robert Christon acquired the land in 1698. The western extension, which may include an earlier single-storey range, and the outshut were likely built after the Taylor family purchased the farm in 1759.