Roecroft Farmhouse

Roecroft Farmhouse is an earlier 18th-century farmhouse that was altered and enlarged in the 19th century. It is built of handmade brick with stone quoins on a chamfered sandstone plinth and features a graduated stone slate roof. The house has a double-depth, two-bay plan and stands two and a half storeys tall with a symmetrical facade. There are bands on two levels, each consisting of three courses, with the upper band having a recessed middle course. The original central doorway has been replaced with patched masonry, and there are two square windows on each floor, all with segmental gauged brick heads, although the glazing has been altered. At the center of the eaves, there is a gabled half-dormer, and gable chimneys are present. The left gable has been covered by a 19th-century addition. The right gable wall features an inserted doorway with an elliptical head, a blocked two-light cellar window in the plinth, and two stair windows, both with segmental gauged brick heads; the lower window has a three-course band above it, while the upper has a segmental label. The rear of the house has two windows on each floor similar to those at the front, but with different glazing, and a small inserted window in the center of each floor. There is also a two-storey single-bay 19th-century addition to the left. Inside, the front rooms have stopped ovolo-moulded beams, while the rear room features stopped chamfered beams. The interior includes timber-framed partition walls, a dog-legged staircase with a closed string, rectangular newels, turned balusters, and a moulded handrail, as well as an upper cruck roof truss. The farmhouse is comparable to Nixons Farmhouse.