Carr House Farmhouse

Carr House Farmhouse is a house dating to 1618. It is constructed of large dressed stone with a stone slate roof and follows a hall-and-cross-wings plan. The wings have coped gables with kneelers and project to the south, but are flush with the hall range to the north. The house is two storeys high. The windows are double-chamfered mullioned. The south front features six divisions. The west wing, the first division, has a five-light window with a hoodmould that extends across the hall range, but not the east wing. A five-light window is above it on the first floor, also with a hoodmould with a straight return. The unusually long hall range has a central doorway with a basket-arched lintel inscribed with the date set within a tressure, leading into a through passage. To the left of the doorway, the second division has a six-light housebody window, with a five-light window above that has been reduced to three small glazed panes. Above the doorway is a three-light window. The fourth division has a three-light window. The fifth division includes an inserted doorway next to a three-light window, with another above it. The sixth division is the east wing, which has an inserted doorway in its west wall, with two-light windows above. The south gable has a five-light window, lacking two mullions, with a hoodmould that carries a return along the right-hand wall. Two former two-light windows are on the first floor. The left-hand return wall has a two-light window reduced to a doorway, while the right-hand return wall has a three-light window lacking mullions. Some mullioned windows remain on the rear, which has a doorway of similar character to the front, bearing a date. There are three stacks: one each to the cross-wings and one backing onto the through passage of the hall range. Inside, at the far end of the through passage is a basket-arched doorway leading to the housebody. This room has a Tudor arched fireplace, reeded floor joists, and an oak-panelled division wall between the west wing, featuring plank and muntin construction with reeded stiles. The head beam of this wall, which is heavily curved to one end, has pegholes indicating it may be a reused cruck blade. The chamber above has a Tudor arched fireplace and a king post truss with seven 'V'-struts. A southern room in the west wing has a fireplace with a depressed Tudor arched lintel and stop-chamfered jambs.