Raw End Farmhouse

Raw End Farmhouse dates to 1627, as indicated by the inscribed datestone. It is constructed of large, coursed, dressed stone with a stone slate roof. The building follows a through-passage plan. The south front, which faces the garden, features a plinth and a series of double-chamfered mullion windows. The ground floor windows are arranged as follows (from left to right): 5 lights, 6 lights, 2 lights, a Tudor-arched, chamfered doorway with an inscribed datestone above, 2 lights, 3 lights, and 2 lights, all sheltered by a continuous dripmould extending over the datestone. The first floor windows consist of 5 lights, 5 lights, a single arched light with sunk spandrels and archivolt dated 1839, and a 6-light window with a king mullion. The roof has coping with bases for finials. The end and ridge stacks are shouldered and corniced, with the stack on the left end having been rebuilt. On the rear of the house, there is a blocked doorway on the left-hand side, now fitted with a window, and a chamfered, quoined, Tudor-arched doorway leading to the through-passage, which has a small chamfered light above. A 4-light chamfered window is present on the ground floor, above which is a now 3-light window. An outshut on the right-hand side was extended to the left around 1985 and includes a Tudor-arched doorway. The left return features an arched light with sunk spandrels to the first floor, while the right return has a 3-light chamfered mullion window to the first floor.

Inside, the central room (housebody) contains large-scantling stop-chamfered spine beams and joists, all with grooved moulding. A fireplace has been inserted into an inglenook with a stone surround and a deep chamfered lintel with rounded corners to the soffit. The left-hand room retains a chamfered spine beam, groove-moulded joists, and a stone fireplace with a lintel featuring a central triangular chamfer. The right-hand room has a replica fireplace and beams. A barrel-vaulted cellar is also present. Some original stone stairs remain beneath a more modern staircase. A tie-beam with a continuous mortise in the soffit of a left-hand room on the first floor indicates the former position of a partition wall. In the roof at the right end, a single king-post truss is visible, along with 'V' struts to heavy-scantling, trenched, chamfered purlins and a diamond-set ridge piece.