Watson Laithe Farmhouse And Attached Barn

Watson Laithe Farmhouse and the attached barn date from the 17th century and were likely built in two phases. Originally, the farmhouse was divided into two cottages in the 19th century but has since been restored to a single residence. The structure is made of large sandstone rubble with quoins, featuring a stone slate roof on the house and a lower-level barn roof covered with corrugated metal sheets.

The farmhouse is a double-depth, two-bay building with a front outshut to the first bay, while the barn, which has four bays, is located to the right. The two-storey house overlaps the left gable of the barn, suggesting it was added later. It has an outshut porch on the left with a plain doorway in the side wall, and two windows on each floor. The ground floor left window was formerly a doorway with a chamfered surround, while the first-floor right window has two lights with a double-chamfered surround and a square replacement mullion.

The barn features a wagon doorway with a large wooden lintel in the second bay, a plain doorway, and a window to the left, along with a later outshut added to the third bay. The north gable wall of the barn has square breathers on three levels, three ground floor doorways (the outer two have been altered to serve as windows), and a loading door to the loft in the center. The rear of the barn includes a continuous cowshed with a stone slate roof.

On the rear of the house, the gable wall above the barn incorporates a moulded gable coping with four carvings: a rose, IHC (Jesus), a rampant lion, and a crucified figure, all of which are likely late medieval and have been relocated. The first floor features a two-light window similar to the front, and a five-light double-chamfered mullion window missing the fourth mullion. The south gable, which is rendered and painted white, has a similar three-light window on the first floor, along with various other inserted or altered windows on both walls.

Inside, the ground floor has narrow beams with cyma-stopped chamfers, while the first floor boasts one large chamfered beam approximately 25 feet long and a stone spiral staircase.