Jackson'S Farmhouse And Cottage Adjoining Jackson'S Farmhouse And Attached Garden Wall

Jackson's Farmhouse and Cottage, now two separate dwellings, has a complex history, with a hall range dated 1627 internally and a wing likely constructed around 1600, with later alterations. The building is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with a stone slate roof. It presents as a modified T-plan, facing south, comprising a hall range, a two-bay crosswing at the east end, a short rear wing, and a projecting porch at the west end.

The two-storey porch at the west end has a doorway with a four-centred head. Above the doorway is a slightly-oversailing facade with a recessed three-light window on the first floor. The gable features a round-headed light and stone coping. The hall range has a continuous dripcourse at ground floor. The ground floor incorporates a former firewindow and a king-mullioned hall window, originally four lights plus four lights but now reduced to two lights plus four (with a doorway inserted at the left end, now blocked). The first floor has two three-light windows, all with recessed ovalo-and-fillet mullions and hoodmoulds to the first-floor windows. The west gable wall has two similar two-light windows on the first floor and a stone gable coping, topped by a large chimney cap. A small ridge chimney is situated at the junction with the wing.

The earlier east wing has king-mullioned windows with recessed round-headed lights and hollow spandrels; these are three lights on each floor. A small window on each floor is present in the re-entrant wall, slightly overlapped by the junction of the hall and wing, and the upper window is blocked. The return wall of this wing features a large external chimney stack—partially rebuilt—and an inserted doorway, along with one mullioned window on each floor facing the rear. The rear elevation also has recessed mullioned windows and a short gabled wing extending from the hall range.

The interior of the east wing reveals a timber-framed lateral partition with large posts and rails, creating square panels. The parlour features large chamfered beams supported by moulded stone corbels, pointed-Tudor-arched doorways (broadly chamfered) on both floors, with one at the first floor connecting to the hall range. There’s a blocked, chamfered fireplace above the parlour. The hall range has been altered, but the housepart retains remains of elaborate plasterwork at the east end, including a herm, a lozenge displaying the date 1627, and a shield bearing the initials C.I.S.I (Christopher and Susan Jackson). A through-passage is located at the west end. Evidence suggests a former inglenook in the through-passage, with a reredos and smoke hood arching over the passage to a gable chimney, based on the firewindow’s position, grooved beam on the line of a bressummer, and the internal form of the chimney cap at the west gable.

The property is set within a rectangular front garden, extended slightly to the west, and enclosed by a low garden wall approximately one metre high. This wall is constructed of coursed rubble with quoins and chamfered dressed coping.