Tankersley Farmhouse Including Tankersley Farm Cottage And Attached Farmbuildings

Tankersley Farmhouse, which includes Tankersley Farm Cottage and attached farm buildings, is a Grade II listed structure located on Tankersley Church Lane in Upper Tankersley. This farmhouse and its farm buildings, now converted into two dwellings, date from the late 17th century, with an earlier core and later alterations. The building features some internal timber-framing, constructed from rubble and ashlar sandstone, and has stone slate eaves courses beneath a Welsh slate roof.

The farmhouse is two storeys high and forms a 40-metre long range with a double wing at the rear left. The house section on the left has three bays, with large quoins and a chamfered plinth. It features a quoined, bolection-moulded door surround with a projecting keystone and a 20th-century part-glazed door. To the left, there is a 4-light double-chamfered mullioned window with a wooden casement that has glazing bars, and a 3-light casement above it, along with two small casements above the door. On the right, a 4-light open-hall window has an architrave supported by five brackets, with a transom and king-mullion; the lower lights have casements while the upper lights are blocked. Above this window, there is a 2-light dormer with a chamfered surround, kneelers, and gable copings. A brick ridge stack is located opposite the door and at the right end of the house.

The farm building on the right has a ragged joint with rubble walling. The first bay, now part of the house, features a door with an inserted casement on each floor to the left, and a casement on the right with a loft door above. There are stable doors on the right, slatted casements, a boarded hatch to the first floor, and slit vents. At the rear, a truncated wing on the left has 20th-century windows, while the wing on the right retains some double-chamfered openings, two of which have dripstones. The left return has a bonded, chamfered doorway on the right with a keyed lintel; a drip mould drops to the left over a 3-light casement, with a later 3-light casement above it.

Inside, there is evidence of timber framing in the partition wall between the main range and the truncated rear wing, with another truss and post visible from the loft, set close to this partition within the wing. The roof features principal-rafter trusses.