Old Malt Kiln

A probable early 17th-century farmhouse, altered and re-faced in the 18th century, and subsequently altered again. It is constructed of coursed magnesian limestone rubble with a pantiled roof, incorporating corrugated sheet eaves, and retaining evidence of its earlier timber-frame structure. The building has a linear, three-cell lobby-entry plan, with a continuous rear outshut. Two storeys high, it features quoins. A glazed door is located at the junction of the first and second cells, alongside a two-light casement to the left, an inserted modern bow window, and a three-light casement to the right. First-floor windows are also casements of two, three, and two lights. The steeply-pitched roof has a gable parapet on the left end, with a chimney positioned on the ridge in line with the door and at the right gable. The left gable has one window on the ground floor and another at the upper level of the outshut; the right gable has a first-floor window. The rear of the building has been altered and is of less architectural interest. Internally, evidence of the former timber-frame remains, including wall posts in the front wall (between the second and third bays), three posts in the screen wall to the outshut, with a wallplate and pegholes for longitudinal bracing to the posts and towards the stone gable wall at the left end. There is also evidence that the roof was formerly hipped at this end. An inglenook fireplace retains remnants of a former smoke hood on the opposite side of the chimney stack at the first floor. Chamfered firehood bressummers are present in the second and third bays, while a lateral partition between the second and third bays has been removed, with wattle holes visible in the beam. A "beehive" bread oven is located in the rear of the stack, now concealed.