Earlsgate Farmhouse

Earlsgate Farmhouse is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. The right wing, which features a keystone inscribed "S," was built for Edward and Anne Shankster in 1683. The left section is likely a re-fronting of an earlier building from the mid to late 18th century. The farmhouse has undergone alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries, including an outshut added to the front in 1984. It is constructed of red brick, with the right wing rendered, squared limestone at the rear, and a limestone rubble plinth on the left gable end. The roof is covered with 20th-century pantiles and features brick stacks.

The building is L-shaped, with a four-room range and a two-room front wing to the right, along with an outshut in the angle. It stands two storeys high and has a three-bay symmetrical entrance front to the left, with a single-bay outshut and projecting wing to the right. The right wing has a chamfered plinth. The entrance features a six-fielded-panel door with a plain overlight beneath a rubbed-brick cambered arch, flanked by early 20th-century unequal sashes with decorative glazing bars in the upper sash, all set in original flush wooden surrounds under rubbed brick arches. The right wing has a projecting central section with a similar ground floor sash under a stone wedge lintel. The first floor has similar sashes: three to the left with lintels at eaves level, and one in the wing under a stone wedge lintel with a raised inscribed keystone. The outshut, which replaces an earlier addition, has a casement window on each floor with glazing bars matching those of the sashes. The eaves board is plain and from the 20th century. The roof is hipped at the front of the wing, with a stone-coped gable and a shaped kneeler on the left. The right return features a wide lateral double stack with a projecting bay window between the flues and twin 19th-century chimneys, along with a 19th-century end stack on the left. The left gable end has a three-course moulded brick band with two recessed rectangular panels above, each containing raised brick roundels.

Inside, there is a fine mid to late 18th-century open well closed-string staircase with a moulded handrail and a close-strutted Chinese Chippendale balustrade.