Old Farm Cottage Old Farmhouse

Old Farm Cottage and Old Farmhouse are a late 16th-century house, now divided into two separate dwellings. The building is constructed of large dressed stone with a stone slate roof. Originally a 3-room through-passage house, the south front features double-chamfered mullioned windows with a deep splay and hollow-chamfered mullions. The central window is a 3-light design with a hoodmould, partially concealed by a porch with two doorways that protect the original door entry. This door has a deep straight lintel, composite jambs, and a wide stop-chamfered surround. Above the porch is a 3-light window. The main body of the house has an 8-light window with a hoodmould that continues over a 4-light parlour window. Above these are an 8-light and a 3-light window. A stack rises from the ridge, backing onto the through passage. The right-hand return wall contains a dressed stack below the ridge and includes two inserted doorways and a cross-window to the ground floor. There are two 3-light windows to the first floor, one with a hoodmould, and a well-dressed stack within a single-storey outshut at the northern end. The left-hand return wall has a 3-light window to the first floor. Coped gables have carved ball shapes at the apex. The rear of the house has a similar door to the front (now altered to a window) and a 5-light window to the right, with a 3-light window on the first floor to the left. There are also other inserted windows and a doorway. The rear of the outshut has a catslide roof and a 5-light window. Inside, the division wall between the housebody and parlour is a board and muntin panelled wall (partly obscured). The housebody contains scarf-jointed spine beams, evidence of a former bressumer, and a large basket-arched fireplace with joggled skewbacks and a cyma moulded surround, similar to that at Lower Ashes, Ashes Lane, and likely of 18th-century date. A fine stair with turned oak balusters and raised and fielded panelling is also present. Incorporated into one of the outbuildings is a part of a fireplace lintel decoratively inscribed 'W M I', originally from the parlour. Some of the window stones are marked with the letter 'E'.