Top Farmhouse

Top Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates from the mid 17th century, with an early 18th-century addition and 19th-century wood casements. The structure features an oak frame that is mostly covered in pebbledash, with the end walls rebuilt in brick. The roof is slate, a mid-20th-century replacement of pantiles that probably once covered thatch. The building has two storeys, with three windows in the older section and one in the newer section, which has higher eaves and a lower pitch. There is a ridge chimney on the older part and a flush gable chimney on the newer part. The wall-plates of oak are visible along both sides of the older section, and there is one panel of small framing on the east side above a 19th-century outshut. The older part has a projecting plinth made of large red sandstone blocks, while the newer part features a dentilled brick eaves course. Inside, there is one mid-17th-century chamfered oak beam and one later sawn beam in the older section, along with an altered inglenook fireplace. The newer part contains two sawn beams of oak.