Matshead Farmhouse

Matshead Farmhouse is a house built in 1703, with significant exterior alterations made around 1980. The building is constructed of rendered brick and topped with a slate roof. The original stone window dressings and drip courses have been replaced with cast concrete replicas. The house has an L-plan layout and stands two storeys tall with an attic, featuring three bays and two drip courses. The ground and first floors have cross windows, while the attic includes two-light mullioned windows. The central bay contains a door under a slated canopy, which has a moulded stone surround with a shaped lintel inscribed with 'RM 1703'. A chimney is located on the rear wall of the front range, positioned between the first and second bays. The drip courses extend along the left-hand return wall. The gable of the front range, which consists of two bays, has windows similar to those at the front, with the left-hand bay being blank on the ground floor. The rear wing has one bay, featuring a six-light mullioned and transomed window on the ground floor and a cross window above. Inside, the farmhouse has exposed ovolo-moulded main ceiling joists and a similar firehood bressumer in the left-hand front room.