Dovecote House Farmhouse

Dovecote House Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1698, though it may be older. It features a stone plinth, handmade brick construction, and a slate roof with one chimney on the ridge and another on the right gable. The building has a three-bay baffle-entry plan, with rear outshuts to the first and third bays, and a later single-storey rubble extension at the front of the first bay. It stands two storeys high with an attic. Architectural details include a first-floor band, a double saw-toothed second-floor band, and two tie plates.

At the junction of the first and second bays, there is a two-storey gabled porch with a large rectangular stone lintel inscribed with the letters G and heavily-studded I.A, along with the date 1698 on the inner board door. The porch also has a small modern window in a blocked original window and three small openings in the apex of the gable. All windows, except for the altered ground floor window in the second bay, have splayed brick heads and modified glazing. The left return wall features a door and window at ground level, as well as an attic window. The rear includes a single-storey outshut to the first bay, a two-storey outshut to the third bay, a blocked first-floor window, and four altered windows, all with segmental brick relieving arches, one of which serves as a stairlight.

Inside, the farmhouse has back-to-back inglenook fireplaces with moulded bressummers, and ¼-round moulded beams throughout. The partitioned third bay contains a parlour with a cross-corner fireplace. There is a good half-turn staircase with landings, a string, newel posts with ball finials, and turned balusters. The first-floor partition walls are timber-framed, and the roof trusses likely incorporate re-used cruck blades.