Sales'S Farmhouse With Attached Barn

Sales's Farmhouse with attached barn is a historic building dated 1679, as noted on the re-cut lintel of the doorway of the lean-to at the right end. The structure is made of coursed sandstone rubble with quoins and features a stone slate roof with a brick chimney near the right gable. It has an L-shaped plan, consisting of a two-bay end-baffle-entry farmhouse with a rear extension at the second bay, and a three-bay barn extending to the left.

The building stands two storeys tall, with walls raised by three or four courses, and the rear extension has a separate roof. The original entrance, located in the right return wall, is now covered by a single-storey lean-to, while the current entrance is an inserted door to the first bay. To the left of this door is a chamfered mullion window with a hoodmould, originally a four-light window but now altered and lacking two mullions. To the right is another chamfered mullion four-light window and a two-light firewindow, both with linked hoodmoulds and missing one mullion. On the first floor, there are two altered chamfered flush mullion windows, both three-lights and lacking one mullion.

At the right end, the lean-to, which replaces the original porch, has a doorway with a re-cut lintel inscribed ":IS : 1679:", and the extension partly covered by this lean-to features a plain doorway and the remains of one flush mullion window on each floor. Inside, the second bay contains an inglenook fireplace with a very large crudely chamfered bressumer, a heck to the original doorway on the left, and two chamfered beams. The historical context includes Thomas Sale, a Quaker who was imprisoned in 1665. The plan type of this farmhouse closely resembles that of Ridshaw Farmhouse on Bury Old Road.