Aspinalls Farmhouse

Aspinalls Farmhouse is a farmhouse, dating from 1663, with datestones bearing this date in the west gable and another from 1756 in the south front. The building appears to have been remodelled in the 18th or 19th century and subsequently altered. It is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble and coursed squared sandstone, with a slate roof.

Originally, it was likely a north-south facing building, but it is now arranged as a double-depth, double-fronted four-room plan on an east-west axis, facing south. The farmhouse has a basement and attic, and a high, chamfered plinth which runs around the whole building. The two-window south front features a 20th-century porch, offset to the right of centre, with a datestone inscribed "I A I 1756" above it. To the left of the porch are two five-light mullioned windows on each floor, with chamfered sills, ovolo-and-fillet mullions and cavetto-moulded hoodmoulds (the hoodmoulds on the upper windows suggesting this was formerly a gable wall). To the right are two large, square, six-light casement windows on each floor, with straight cornices. Gable chimneys are present. The left gable wall has similar mullioned windows on each floor; two lights to the left and three to the right, although most are now blocked except for the upper right window. Only the ground floor windows on the gable retain their hoodmoulds. An attic window is positioned centrally, with datestones above and below bearing raised lettering: "I R 1663 O I" and "E E R 1663".

The rear of the farmhouse has a Tudor-arched doorway at the east end, with the surviving hoodmould of a former cellar window in the centre. The west portion of the rear has a doorway near the corner, along with hoodmoulds over an altered window on each main floor. The east portion features a rectangular, 30-pane stairwindow and a small-paned sliding sash cross-window on each floor to the left.

The interior has not been inspected, but is said to contain small, stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, and a dog-legged staircase with flat balusters.

Aspinalls Farmhouse forms a group with the associated barn on the opposite side of the lane.