Crooked Oak Farmhouse

Crooked Oak Farmhouse is a house dated 1684, featuring the initials TRI (for Thomas Richardson and his wife) on the door surround. The building is constructed of rubble with cut dressings and has a stone slate roof with brick stacks. It stands two storeys high and has two wide bays. The central boarded door is set within a lugged architrave, which includes a pulvinated frieze and a moulded cornice. On either side of the door are 4-light chamfered mullioned windows, with similar 2-light windows above, although most of the mullions are missing. To the far left, there is a blocked door with a small oval window (also blocked) in a monolithic surround. The gables are coped, and the end stacks have been rebuilt on their original bases. There is a pent outshut to the right, which has a boarded door and a boarded opening above. An outbuilding to the left has an asbestos roof and is not of interest. The rear elevation features a blocked opening with a timber lintel above a later outshut, likely from a former stair wing. Inside, there is a parlour fireplace with an elaborate moulded surround inscribed with JR 1717.