Middle Longfield Farmhouse And Attached Barn

Middle Longfield Farmhouse is a house dating from the mid-17th century, with an added porch dated 1700. It is attached to an earlier double-aisled barn, possibly from the 16th century. The house is constructed of large dressed stone with a stone slate roof. It has a baffle entry plan and two storeys. The south front has double-chamfered mullioned windows on the ground floor and chamfered mullioned windows on the first floor. To the service end, the ground floor has two two-light windows with an open space between, lacking mullions, and above them are four-light windows lacking two mullions. A gabled, single-storey porch has copings, kneelers, a plinth, an open doorway with a depressed Tudor arch featuring sunken spandrels and a cyma moulded surround. A decorative tablet bears the date and initials W G above a two-light window. The main body of the house has a five-light window lacking two mullions at ground-floor level, with a four-light window above (also lacking two mullions). A 19th-century doorway has been inserted into the front elevation. The right return wall has a coped gable with kneelers matching those of the porch, and a stack with multiple offsets. The rear elevation has two two-light chamfered windows to the service room and a three-light double-chamfered fire-window (lacking mullions) with a small chamfered light above. At a right angle to the original farmhouse is an added kitchen range, likely dating from the late 18th or early 19th century, constructed with watershot masonry, quoins, a coped gable with kneelers, and a stack. This range has flat-faced mullioned windows with two-wide lights to both floors, with a taking-in door to the gable. Inside the house, the main room has a bressumer beam supported on stop-chamfered posts. A chamfered door entry leads to the service room. The aisles of the barn project to both the front and rear and are coped with kneelers. The barn has a semi-circular cart entry blocked on the north side, and a square-headed entry set within a portal of the aisle on the south side. A mistal door to the right has a quoined lintel and a stop-chamfered surround. Another mistal door in the re-entrant angle of the portal has a segmental arched lintel and a chamfered surround. The four-bay barn retains two original Queen strut trusses, one carried on posts with curved braces.