Iron Barn Farmhouse

Iron Barn Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the early 17th century and altered in the 18th century, with recent renovations. It is constructed of colour-washed handmade brick on a plinth of red sandstone, topped with a roof of stone slate at the front and slate at the rear. The building features a three-bay baffle-entry plan with a projecting porch and later additions to the front and rear of the first bay.

The farmhouse is two storeys high, with a high chamfered plinth and a single-storey gabled porch aligned with a ridge chimney at the junction of the second and third bays. The porch has a round-headed outer opening, stone side benches, and a studded board door with ornamental strap hinges, set in a pegged oak doorcase with a Tudor-arched lintel. There are segmental-headed three-light sliding sash windows on each side at ground level, and three small two-light sliding sash windows on the first floor, with the central window being segmental-headed, all featuring small panes. The gabled single-storey addition at the front of the first bay was formerly a dairy.

At the rear, all windows have been altered and enlarged, likely in the 19th century, with the central window now a French door that breaks the plinth. Inside, there are quarter-round moulded lateral beams in the second and third bays, one of which has a concave brace that dies into the rear wall, while another has a blocked mortice in the same position. A brick chimney stack features back-to-back fireplaces with Tudor-arched stone lintels on stone corbels, and one side has a round-arched recess that may have been for a bread oven. On the first floor, there are blocked mortices in the soffit of a beam near the chimney stack, suggesting a former smoke bay. The roof has a kingpost truss with wattle holes in the soffit.