Bank Farmhouse

Bank Farmhouse is a building with a crosswing (on the right) dating from the later 16th century, and a long wing (on the left) constructed in the mid 17th century and later cased in brick during the late 18th century. A rear extension was added in the 19th century. The windows were replaced in the late 20th century.

The farmhouse is built with oak small framing, some wattle and daub panels, brick nogging, brick casing, and brick rebuilding. It has grey slate roofs; the roof of the long wing has raised eaves and a reduced pitch, an indication of a former thatched roof. The right-hand face of the crosswing features narrow panels with a single rail to the lower storey. A jetty is present at the first floor, with decayed carving on the face of the ovolo bressummer, which has a chevron-carved console in the centre and part of one remaining to the left. The upper storey has a rail and chevron panels. A small-pane casement window and a blocked opening, formerly for a bowed window supported on two carved consoles, are also present. An ovolo bressummer at the second floor, supported on four chevron-carved consoles, is decorated with carvings of 16-petal flowers and swags and garlands in a diaper pattern. The attic has a row of panels between the bressummer and wallplate. The front gable has been rebuilt in brick to the second floor, with small-pane casements to each storey; the attic gable, partly brick-nogged and partly rebuilt, has a small iron casement with missing leads. The rear gable wall, rebuilt in brick to the attic tie-beam, includes queen-posts above and a window of four leaded lights. The long wing was cased in brick, probably in the late 18th century, with a rear extension of brick added in the 19th century, and the gable wall rebuilt in brick.

A 19th-century porch in the corner of the wings has 19th-century doors; the outer door is of four reeded flush panels, and the inner door is of four bolection moulded panels. The long wing has three windows across two storeys, with all windows replaced in the late 20th century. A brick dentil course runs beneath the eaves. There are two ridge chimneys, one at the junction of the wings and the other between the middle and outer rooms of the left wing.

The rear of the long wing displays a row of light oak-framed brick-nogged panels between the roof of a 19th-century outshut and the eaves, effectively situated between the wallplate of a former steep-pitched roof and the raised eaves of the current roof.

The interior includes brick cellars. Two ovolo beams, not stopped, are visible in the lower room of the crosswing; similar beams, likely replaced, are in the upper room. A good inglenook fireplace in the lower room, featuring a sandstone surround and an oak bressumer, has quirked hollow-moulded arrises to the reveals and beam. The long wing has chamfered oak beams, a plain inglenook in the central room, and a likely blocked inglenook, back-to-back with it, in the outer room. Oak six-panel doors, probably from the early 18th century, are present. An oak staircase, with winders, is located in the left front corner of the crosswing; a replaced staircase sits between the inglenook and front wall in the long wing.