Ross Farmhouse

Ross Farmhouse is probably of 1787, with alterations dating from the early to mid-19th century and later additions. It’s a brick farmhouse with a pantile roof, set on an L-shaped plan. The north front features a two-room design with a central entrance hall. A kitchen wing extends to the rear right. The facade is symmetrical, with two storeys and three bays. A 20th-century door is set within a 19th-century doorcase, which includes panelled pilasters and a frieze with square ornamentation at the corners, a moulded cornice, and a hood. Original four-pane sash windows are retained within flush wooden architraves and sills, all set beneath keyed stucco cambered arches. The eaves are stepped. Stone-coped gables include shaped kneelers, and there are end stacks. The interior contains an open-well staircase with a moulded handrail and plain stick balusters; the house was not fully inspected. A threshing barn to the rear, likely contemporary with the farmhouse, has a datestone on the north gable, inscribed “P / T M / 1787.”