1-7 (odd) Newhouses Cottages

A farmhouse (Nos. 3 to 7) formerly known as Newhouse Farmhouse, dated 1691 on the porch, with a cottage added at the east end (No. 1), was later altered to create four cottages and is now three dwellings. The building is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble, with some quoins (watershot at No. 1), and is mostly painted white, with a stone slate roof, two ridge chimneys, and an external chimney at the west gable. It has a three-bay baffle-entry plan, with a projecting porch on the north side, which was originally the front.

The two-storey gabled porch, situated at the junction of the original first and second bays, features quoins, a later extension to the right side, a doorway with a large offset lintel, a recessed datestone bearing the date 1691, a four-pane stairlight with a hoodmould, a square window above the datestone, and a narrow light in the left-side wall. The rear of the building (now facing Springfield Road) has four plain inserted doorways. The original middle bay features a square firewindow and a chamfered-mullion window of two square lights, both with hoodmoulds. The western bay to the left of this also has a similar window. Five small windows are located on the first floor. No. 1, at the east end, has an altered window at ground floor and a two-light flush mullion window under the eaves at first floor. The west gable wall includes a roughly tapered external chimney, a three-light casement with a hoodmould at ground floor, a blocked two-light window, and an inserted window beside it. The rear of No. 7 shows part of a hoodmould over a window next to the door.

Inside, two original doors from the third bay lead to the porch (one to the door, the other to the original position of the stairs). An inglenook bressumer is supported by a witchpost with a scored and gouged “X” on the head, bearing an inscribed date of 1695, which is partly obscured. There are also scored roll-moulded beams. In No. 3 (the original first bay) are roughly chamfered beams on stone corbels, supporting a stone flagged upper floor.