Intake Farmhouse And Attached Barn

Intake Farmhouse and the attached barn date from around 1700 and have been altered over time. The building is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with quoins and features a stone slate roof. It has a rectangular plan that runs at right angles to the sloped site, with the farmhouse located at the upper end on the right. The farmhouse is two storeys high and consists of two bays, with an aisled five-bay barn extending down the slope to the left.

The farmhouse has an added porch-cum-outhouse that overlaps the junction, providing shelter for a Tudor-arched moulded doorway. To the right of the doorway, there are two recessed mullioned windows on each floor. Originally, these windows had four lights but have since been replaced with coupled four-pane sashes, retaining the central mullions that feature an ovolo-and-fillet section, along with similarly moulded jambs and heads. The roof features one corniced chimney on the ridge and another at the right-hand gable, which has gable coping and kneelers. The gable wall includes two inserted windows and a small cross-window on the first floor towards the rear. The rear of the farmhouse has two doors and windows of 19th-century style with raised surrounds.

Inside, the farmhouse features back-to-back rectangular stone fireplaces and chamfered beams. The barn to the left has a central segmental-headed wagon arch, above which is a three-light loft window with chamfered mullions. To the right, there is a smaller similar doorway leading to the fifth bay and a looplight for the fourth bay. Above the doorway, a loading door has been altered to function as a window. To the left, at lower ground level, there are two chamfered doorways, and above this level, a two-light flat-faced mullion window is flanked by small rectangular looplights.

The interior of the barn includes a front aisle arcade with two round-headed stone arches on either side of the entrance, queen-post roof trusses, and a re-used beam with a deep chamfer and concave tongue-stops supporting the loft over the entrance, which is of 16th-century type.