Causeway Farmhouse

Causeway Farmhouse is probably of early 17th-century origin, with possible enlargement in the later 17th century. A datestone indicates 1728, and the building has been altered and was undergoing renovation in 1985. It is built with a stone plinth, handmade brick with large stone quoins, and scored render on the front and gables, topped with a slate roof. The farmhouse has an L-shaped plan, comprising a three-bay range set north-south, with a projecting single-bay wing at the front of the first bay. A porch sits in the angle between the ranges, with an outshut and porch to the rear of the main range and a stairturret to the rear of the wing.

The two-storey porch, in line with the main range's ridge chimney, has a doorway lettered in relief with "A A 1728 G" above the lintel and a two-light window above this. A horizontal rectangular opening with four small rendered mullion lights, with the left end blocked, is situated to the right on the first floor, although the other front openings are modernised. The right gable wall of the main range has an added external staircase leading to an inserted first-floor door, a corbelled chimney from the first floor, and a two-light mullioned attic window.

At the rear, a full-height outshut extends, with the roof sweeping over it. A gabled two-storey porch (to the second bay) sits at the south end of the outshut, featuring a rectangular doorway on its south side and a round-headed light above. A three-light rendered mullioned window is found on the rear wall of the third bay at first floor level. The north gable of the main range has a recessed seven-light chamfered mullion window at ground floor, with a matching window above (with a label), and smaller windows to the left overlooking the outshut; the upper window is blocked and the lower one altered. A gabled stairturret projects from the junction of this north gable and the wing, featuring two altered windows in the gable wall and a blocked window in the side. An added two-storey store is situated in the angle beyond the stairturret.

Inside, the front wall plinth of the main range continues across the partition wall of the first bay, but the first bay and wing display 1/4-round moulded beams. The ground floor of the main range has stop-chamfered beams resting on stone corbels. A partition between the first and second bays incorporates a stone chimney stack with a large, moulded rectangular stone fireplace in the first bay, alongside light timber framing including a blocked doorway to the right. The staircase is modern. A room on the first floor of the third bay (now accessed via external steps) has a timber-framed partition wall with a doorway featuring a cross incised over the lintel's nick. The visible rear wall inside the roof of the outshut consists of brick with a blocked rendered brick-mullion window and timber-framed sections with clamstaff and daub panels, and a blocked doorway. A blocked first-floor doorway to the second bay is visible inside the rear porch. The building’s development history remains obscure.