West Fleetham Farmhouse

West Fleetham Farmhouse is a house that likely began as a bastle house, dating from the 16th century or early 17th century. It was extended in the 18th century and altered between 1810 and 1820. The building is constructed of random rubble with ashlar chimneys and ashlar repairs to the rear wing, topped with a Welsh slate roof. The layout is L-shaped, with 18th and early 19th-century additions on the right side that create a U-shape, and there is a single-storey lean-to that links the rear ranges.

The facade features two storeys and four bays, where the left two bays represent the older section with significantly thicker walls. There is a 20th-century door and porch in the third bay, and the windows are 12-pane sashes with projecting sills. The roof is gabled with flat coping, and there are renewed brick end stacks along with a corniced ridge stack that has acroteria, as well as a similar stack on the gable of the rear wing.

Inside, there is an internal cross wall to the right of the second bay that is approximately 54 inches thick. The former external rear wall of this section is also about 50 inches thick, and a former ground-floor doorway in this area, now a cupboard, features a Tudor-arched lintel. The front wall of the older part is around 40 inches thick. The late 18th-century addition has thinner walls and includes a staircase with stick balusters, as well as 6-panel doors and shutters. The older section, remodeled around 1810, has 6-panel doors with fluted surrounds and paterae, and the shutters also feature fluted surrounds. The short one-bay rear wing has ground floor walls that are approximately 40 inches thick, and the ridge stack serves only one fireplace on the first floor.