Douglas Bank Farmhouse

Douglas Bank Farmhouse, now a house, dates to 1656 and was altered, renovated, and slightly enlarged around 1973. Originally known as Fisher's House, the building was constructed by Henry Fisher, a yeoman, and his wife Margaret. Its unusual construction combines coursed squared sandstone on the front facade with handmade red brick in an English garden wall bond on the sides and rear. The roof is slate, covered with brick chimneys.

The house has an H-plan, featuring a one-bay baffle-entry hall-range and two-bay crosswings. A porch is attached to the east wing, and a stair-turret is connected to the rear of the west wing. The building is two storeys and an attic, with a window arrangement of 1:1:2 bays. It has a high moulded plinth.

The porch features a Tudor-arched doorway with a chamfered surround (now eroded), a recessed square datestone reading F H M 1656 above the doorway, and a double-chamfered cross-window above with a damaged hoodmould. The floors contain double-chamfered mullioned windows, with four lights to each except for a five-light window on the ground floor of the hall-range. Most windows have cavetto-moulded hoodmoulds, except for the first-floor window of the hall-range. The wings' gables have small attic windows—one blocked one-light window to the left and a two-light window with a hoodmould to the right.

A downspout with a rainwater head lettered H F 1715 is present on the east wing. A ridge chimney aligns with the porch, and a side-wall chimney is on the west wing. The west wing’s left return wall has two 20th-century windows on the ground floor and wooden mullion windows above (two and four lights). The east wing’s right-hand return wall exhibits diapering in raised headers with brick labels above two blocked or altered windows on each floor.

The rear of the east wing features a Tudor-arched doorway with a stone lintel and brick label, alongside a window on each floor with labels. The west wing has restored mullion windows on both floors, the lower having a stone hoodmould and the upper a brick label. A gabled stair-turret is coupled to this wing, featuring a glazed door at ground floor, a large wooden cross-window above, and a Greek cross of raised headers in the gable. A 20th-century barbecue chimney now partially overlaps the turret, and a shallow, flat-roofed addition from around 1973 sits between the wings, intended to be sympathetic but not entirely successful.

Internally, the hall-range includes an inglenook with a chamfered bressummer, two axial beams, and two large iron rings fixed in the front beam, potentially associated with a loom. A lateral partition has been removed from the west wing, but a Tudor-arched parlour fireplace, a lateral beam, and two axial beams remain in the former front parlour and rear dairy, respectively. The outer beam in the former dairy has two large iron hooks, possibly linked to slaughtering practices. The building's combination of brick and stone is unique for the area in the mid-17th century.