Flaxyards Farmhouse

Flaxyards Farmhouse is a farmhouse, dated 1665 on the gable bressumer of one wing, with later 17th and 18th century additions and alterations. The building is constructed of red Flemish bond brick and coursed red sandstone, with a slate roof. It is two storeys with an attic. The entrance front has four bays, with near-symmetrical lateral gabled bays and a central portion. The central two bays and the bay to the right are brick built, while the left-hand gabled wing is of stone. This stone wing, dating from the late 17th or early 18th century, has two ground floor windows, one first floor window, and one attic window, all of 19th century date and with two casement lights. The central portion of the house, dating from the mid-17th century, has a four-panelled door, with a 19th-century gabled porch above, located to the right of centre. Either side of the door are 3-light 20th-century windows with flat-arched heads, formed from vertically placed stretchers. The first floor features two 3-light 20th-century windows, originally of less width, as indicated by the cambered, splayed heads. There is a band of three bricks depth with projecting headers above. The right-hand gable wing, dating from 1665 but apparently replaced on this facade in the 18th or 19th century, has a 3-light 20th-century ground floor window and a similar first floor window. A 20th-century wall is flush with the front, topped with ramped cresting. The rear elevation features projecting gabled wings at the right and left, with the left wing constructed of stone and the rest of brick, with a stone plinth. The right-hand gable end has two attic cross windows and a brick gable stack. The central portion has a central door and 3-light casements to either side, with flat-arched heads and cambered 3-light first floor windows. There is an eaves band similar to that on the entrance front. The left-hand gable-ended wing has a flat-arched doorway at the right and one cambered-headed first floor window. A timber-framed gable above has a dated collar beam and small framing with V-strutting.