Top Of Quarlton Farmhouse

Farmhouse, originally known as Quarlton Old Hall, dating from the 16th century, with alterations in the 17th and 18th centuries, and renovated in the 1960s. It is now a house. The construction is of coursed sandstone blocks with large quoins, and the roof is slate-covered, featuring chimneys on the ridge and at the gables. The building has an L-shaped plan, with the earliest range oriented north-south, originally two (or possibly three) bays, now largely used as a barn. A wing was subsequently added to the east side, later extended forwards to the south and across the original gable end.

The west-facing front, which appears to have been raised, has three bays at ground floor. The third bay incorporates the original doorway to a through passage, now altered and serving as a window. To the right of this is a 4-light, double-chamfered stone mullion window with a hoodmould. Under a continuous dripmould to the left are windows of 4 lights in the first bay, 5 lights in the second, the dripmould stepping over this, and a window with 2 round-headed lights. On the first floor, the first bay has a 4-light window with a hoodmould, the second has an inserted window, and a stepped portion of the band displays a rectangular surround of unknown purpose. The third bay has a later 4-light window. The rear elevation, now the front, features a moulded doorway with a square window above the lintel and a blocked round-headed light to the left. Altered masonry under an old gable line indicates a former lower wing to the right of the door. The wing on the left, which is also lower, has a vertical joint with quoins in the middle of the gable wall, a round-headed light beyond this, a similar light at first floor to the right, and a small square window to the right at ground floor. The south end wall, roughly three bays wide, has a vertical joint with quoins to the third bay, a doorway and a mullioned window to the right, topped by an 18th-century 3-light window. To the left are coupled triple-light windows and a 2-light window at ground floor, with a 3-light window above, all of 18th-century type with flush mullions.

The interior shows evidence of alterations but contains at least one pair of cruck trusses, visible within the through passage.