Dike House Farmhouse And Attached Barn

Dike House Farmhouse, dated 1720, stands with an attached barn. The farmhouse is now derelict. It is constructed from coursed sandstone rubble with a stone slate roof, featuring gable chimneys and gable copings with kneelers. The building follows a double pile, two-bay plan and rises to two storeys. A single-storey gabled porch projects at the right end, covering the junction with the barn, and has a plain doorway offset to the left. The porch gable displays a datestone within a recessed, shouldered panel containing carved decoration and lettering: a crudely carved radiant sun at the top, a flower beneath this, flanked by the letters "I" and "L" and the date "1720" below. All window openings are presently boarded or blocked. The porch has a single rectangular window. The ground floor has two horizontal rectangular windows and an inserted doorway at the left end. The first floor has four square windows, most with flat brick heads. The rear wall has several similar blocked windows, one first-floor window featuring a chamfered mullion. A sunk dairy is built into the slope behind the first bay. The barn, attached at the right end, has a sliding door at the front and a large rear lean-to.