Foxdenton Farmhouse

Foxdenton Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 18th and 19th centuries, with some 17th-century hammer-dressed stone elements and a set of three cruck trusses that may date back to the medieval period. The building features a graduated stone slate roof, which has been partly replaced by corrugated sheet. The cruck structure consists of two bays, including a cross-passage. A gabled stone crosswing was added to the right, and a brick crosswing was added to the front of the left bay. The original timber-framed walls of the main range have been replaced with brick. The farmhouse is now two storeys high, although the hall was likely open to the roof at one time.

The brick ranges display various window openings, some featuring flat brick arches, some with timber lintels, and one with an elliptical brick arch. The left crosswing has a projecting gable chimney stack. The cross-passage is next to the stone crosswing, which has two small chamfered window openings. The right return includes a two-light fire window, a four-light window, and a three-light window on the ground floor, with blocked two and three-light windows on the first floor and at the rear. All these windows have chamfered stone mullions, some of which are recessed. The wing conceals the former gable end of the house, which features decorative plasterwork at the apex and a timber-framed partition that divides it into two rooms. The house section includes an inglenook fireplace with a heck post and timber-framed internal walls. The closed cruck trusses have tie-beams at ceiling height, and their substantial size suggests an early date. The survival of such a structure is rare in this area.