Field Head

This is a late 17th-century house that was refaced and raised in the mid-18th century, with a later 18th-century addition to the rear and an early 19th-century barn. It is constructed of hammer-dressed stone, with ashlar facing the south front, and has a stone slate roof. The house is two stories high.

The south front features a plinth, moulded band, rusticated quoins, and an eaves cornice with moulded brackets. There are seven bays. The windows have architraves and moulded sills. A doorway is centrally positioned between the first and second bays, with architrave flanked by fluted pilasters, a pulvinated frieze, and a triangular pediment above. Above the doorway is a window with a lugged architrave, dropped keystone, and cornice. A double-chamfered two-light mullioned basement window illuminates a cellar located between the first and second bays. Gable copings are moulded and continue under the stacks. There is one stack to the ridge. The left-hand return wall displays the roofline of an earlier 17th-century house.

A lean-to is attached to the rear at a right angle, featuring double-chamfered two-light and three-light mullioned windows, and a two-over-three-light stepped window on the first floor. This lean-to connects to a late 17th-century single cell with a five-light double-chamfered mullioned window featuring a king mullion (3+2) and a six-light window above to the first floor. Quoins mark a later addition with a four-light chamfered mullioned window to the first floor. This addition has a large gable stack and another stack to the ridge.

An attached barn, running parallel to the main range, incorporates segmental-arched cart entries with large skewbacks and chamfered surrounds. It has two-light and three-light flat-faced mullioned windows to the bay closest to the house. The barn was reroofed in the 19th century and has a softwood fish-bone king-post roof.

Inside, the southwest front room has a stone fireplace with architrave and broken pediment, along with dado panelling and a six-panelled door. The central room features a fireplace with architrave and a modillion cornice, and a doorway (now a cupboard) with double doors and six fielded panels with arched heads set within a moulded frame. A rear room has 17th-century reeded ceiling beams and a fireplace with a segmental-arched lintel with a cyma moulded surround and moulded shelf. The chamber above this room has a similar, smaller fireplace, and a window with a panelled window surround and seat.

The house is unique in the township for having a "polite" Georgian facade, but it is not symmetrical, as the disposition of its rooms is dictated by the earlier 17th-century house it replaced, which included one room to the west of a through-passage with two rooms to the east. A change of ownership in 1765 suggests the house may date from that period.