Lofthouse Farmhouse

Lofthouse Farmhouse is a farmhouse with flanking pavilions and link walls, built around 1755, likely by John Carr for Edwin Lascelles, the 1st Lord Harewood. It features punch-dressed stone and stone slate roofs. The building has a symmetrical design with a central two-storey, three-bay house, where the central bay rises to three storeys and projects forward. This central section is flanked by walls that connect to one-storey, one-bay pavilions. The house has quoins and a central bay with a three-light flat-faced mullioned window that has a plain-stone surround and slightly recessed mullions on each floor. The ground floor window has been altered to a doorway with monolithic jambs, accessed by a short flight of stone steps. The roof is hipped with a stack running along the ridge, while the flanking bays each have a two-light window on every floor, also with hipped roofs. The link walls feature ashlar coping. Each pavilion has a small blind window with a plain-stone surround and a small, partly blocked oculus above, topped with pyramidal roofs. At the rear, the central bay of the house has a three-light window on each floor. The pavilions originally had lean-to roofs, with one now altered to a garage and the other removed.

Inside, the kitchen at the rear has a stop-chamfered softwood spine beam and floor joists. The central room contains a fireplace with monolithic jambs and a basket-arched lintel.

The farmhouse was designed to be an eye-catcher from the 18th-century main entrance to Gawthorp Hall and Harewood House, with the intention of emulating the style of those houses, as noted by J. M. Robinson in "In Pursuit of Excellence," published in Country Life on June 28, 1979.