Gatcliffe House Farm House

Farmhouse, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, and altered subsequently. The house is constructed mainly of handmade brick, with some areas patched with common brick, and is painted white, with a concrete tile roof. It has an L-shaped layout, consisting of a two-unit 17th-century front range, a short rear wing, and an addition to the rear of the first bay. The house is two storeys high. The front elevation features 18th-century openings, including a segmental-headed doorway offset to the left of the centre, a two-light casement window to the left, a three-light casement window to the right with a label over it, and small segmental-headed casement windows of three, one, and three lights at the first floor level. Chimneys are located at the front left corner and right gable. The left return wall has two gables of unequal height, with a vertical joint visible in front of a valley; a door is positioned in front of the vertical joint, with a label over it, and each part of the wall has a segmental-headed two-light casement window at the first floor; a modern downspout is present, bearing a head date of 1605. The right-hand gable features a segmental-headed window at ground floor level. The rear includes a small three-light brick-mullion window at the first floor of the second bay, and a 1½-storey rear wing with a gable chimney. Inside the house part of the second bay are two ovolo-moulded beams scarf-jointed in the position of a former firehood bressummer. Above this, at the first floor, a lateral beam has blocked post and wattle holes in the soffit along its entire length, and two bearers jointed into this beam also have similar holes, indicating a formerly enclosed firehood. The parlour in the front of a laterally-partitioned first bay has two small ovolo-moulded beams, and this partition is timber-framed at the first floor.