Bounty Farmhouse

Bounty Farmhouse, now used as a store and unoccupied, likely began as a small farmhouse dating probably to the early 17th century. It was enlarged and altered in the later 17th century, again in the 19th century, and subsequently. Datestones at the rear indicate the years 1667 and 1869. The farmhouse is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble, with some remaining elements of cruck and timber framing. It has a stone slate roof.

The building has an irregular plan, consisting of a two-bay main range, a rear wing added in the later 17th century, and a one-bay addition to the left end. The main range, two low storeys high, originally had two windows. A blocked, square-headed doorway is situated to the right, featuring a chamfered lintel, and there is a small window near where the addition joins it. Larger windows are visible above, now boarded. To the right are two blocked windows on each floor. The north gable wall at ground floor has been removed to create a cart shed, which exposes a former rear wall. This exposed wall reveals square framing with wattle-and-daub panelling, including one blocked panel with signs of former wooden mullions. A stop-chamfered axial beam and purlins with windbrace housings are also visible.

The rear wing is built of coursed, thin sandstone rubble. On the north side, there's a collapsed former dairy, a two-light mullioned fire-window, and a formerly mullioned window which is now boarded. A blocked one-light window is present in the gable wall’s upper section, offset to the left. The south side features a doorway, a loading doorway above it, and a datestone inscribed "1869/ MB/ 1667." The one-bay addition at the south end is two storeys high, with windows on each floor, topped with wedge lintels (all boarded).

Inside, the main range has a large lateral beam with a broach stop in the first bay, and part of a cruck blade separates the bays. The rear wing contains a gable-end inglenook with a chamfered bressumer and a stone fireplace, a stop-chamfered beam with original joists and an upper room with a stone-flagged floor. The windows are mostly small-paned sliding sashes.

It is believed the farmhouse originally started as a cruck-framed longhouse, with a stone parlour wing added in the late 17th century and the main range rebuilt in stone, partly raised, in the early 19th century. It forms a group with the adjacent former barn approximately 2 meters to the south.