Drifthouse North Of Common House Farmhouse

Drifthouse north of Common House Farmhouse is a small drifthouse dating from the mid-17th century. It features brick nogged timber framing set on a high stone plinth, with a roof that is partly covered in old slates and partly in corrugated metal sheeting. The structure has close studding with a middle rail, consisting of seven panels, an opening, and another seven panels. The gable ends are constructed in brickwork. There are softwood boarded doors with strap hinges located at the corners of both ends of the building. The side walls leading to the central passage are timber framed, supported by long passing braces, collar-trusses with three or four vertical struts, and two lines of purlins. The original roof is made of large slates with a sandstone ridge. The rear opening has been filled with a wall of unjointed rubble masonry, and there is a pitch hole high up in the west wall of the covered passage.