Flying Horse Farmhouse

This is a farmhouse, dating from the mid-to-late 17th century, with a wing added in the mid-18th century and a mid-20th century alteration. It is constructed of coursed rubble stone, with hammer-dressed stone in the 18th-century wing, and has stone slate roofs. The original house has a three-cell plan, with a continuous rear outshut and a wing projecting from the first cell, creating an L-shaped layout. The front has two storeys. The wing’s gable features an ashlar chimney stack. The second cell has a lower eaves line and a window with a monolithic lintel, along with a casement window above. To the left, at the junction with the wing, is disturbed masonry and a doorway jamb altered to include a window. Above this is an oval window blocked with 18th-century handmade bricks. The third cell has a doorway with a wooden surround and a sash window above. A 20th-century brick chimney stack is located at the junction of the house and wing. A large external stack is on the right-hand gable, with quoined angles, shouldered offsets, and an 18th-century brick top. At the rear, the second and third cells each have a doorway to the left of the window; the doorway to the second cell has a monolithic lintel and is opposite a former front doorway. A low cat-slide roof slopes down to a hip on the right-hand side, where it joins the wing. The left return (wing) has a rendered facade with a central doorway and windows featuring false voussoirs.

Inside the original house, there are stop-chamfered spine beams of substantial size. The outshut has a cellar with a flat ceiling. Roof features include a five-bay roof with roof trusses incorporating tall king posts and single angle struts, and a fish-bone king-post roof in the wing.

The building was once an inn. At the time of resurvey in 1985, the original house was unoccupied and in a dilapidated condition.