Laythorpe Farmhouse And Attached Barn

Laythorpe Farmhouse and attached barn date primarily to 1737, with the barn added shortly afterwards. The farmhouse is constructed of hammer-dressed stone, with dressed quoins, and has a stone slate roof. It is a two-story, two-cell building following a central lobby-entry plan, designed as a double-depth house. There are three windows on the first floor. The doorway has chamfered monolithic jambs, with a lintel inscribed with the date "R L 1737", now masked by a late 20th-century open-gabled porch. A single-light window sits above the doorway. On both floors, to either side of the house, are three-light flat-faced mullioned windows; the ground-floor windows originally contained five lights, but two mullions were removed and repositioned to create three wider lights. The left-hand gable has coping stones and kneelers. A central ridge stack features a cyma-moulded cornice. A four-bay barn is attached to the right. Quoins are visible on the left side of the barn. The two left bays of the barn are now incorporated into the house, with windows added to match the style. A segmental-arched cart entry has skewbacks, a chamfered surround, and composite jambs. The barn roof was raised when the windows were inserted.