Balshaws Farmhouse

Balshaws Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse, believed to have a datestone dating to around 1628 (now hidden). It is constructed of rendered brick on a low stone base, with a slate roof featuring red ridging tiles. The building has a linear plan of two and a half bays, with the bay at the left end being shorter, and an entrance at the left end. It is two storeys high, with an outshut to the rear of the left half. A single-storey, pitched-roof porch is located on the left side of the front, and there are three casement windows on each floor of the front, along with a small sliding sash window in the first floor of the left gable. The rear wall has one sliding sash window on each floor, and a modern door replacing a window in the third bay. Stone quoins are visible at two corners. A ridge chimney stack is positioned near the left end, and a chimney is located to the left side of the outshut.

Inside, the middle bay features an inglenook fireplace with an ovolo moulded bressummer and a salt cupboard bearing an incised diamond pattern and the letter "T", along with two bridging beams—one boxed and the other incorporated into a partition to a rear passage. A former door to a service room is now blocked and concealed. The roof is purlin-style, with a clay floor, and there are blocked three-light brick mullion windows in both gables.