Birtin House

Birtin House is a farmhouse dating from 1685, as indicated by the date on the door lintel. It is constructed of coursed, squared gritstone with a stone slate roof and has an L-shaped plan with a projecting rear wing on the right. The building is two storeys high and features three windows on the first floor. It has a chamfered plinth and large quoins. The central entrance is a 20th-century part-glazed door set in a chamfered quoined surround, with the lintel soffit heightened. On either side of the door are three-light wooden casement windows in recessed chamfered stone surrounds, although the sills have been replaced and lowered. A continuous dripmould runs above these windows. The upper floor has similar three-light wooden casement windows, which lack stone mullions but retain their sills, flanking a central single-light window, also with a dripmould above. The gables feature moulded kneelers and chamfered gable copings. There is a shouldered external stack on the left and a renewed ashlar stack on the right. On the right return, there is a hooded mullion window in the wing. The attached farm buildings are not considered of special interest.