Bedford Farmhouse

Bedford Farmhouse is a house dating from 1677, built of hammer-dressed stone with a stone slate roof. It has two storeys and a two-cell plan with an end-lobby entrance. The building features quoins and a drip course above the doorway on the left end, which has composite jambs and an ogee lintel with a chamfered surround. The lintel is carved with two shields, one displaying a date inscription and the other showing a coat of arms with three corn sheaves divided by a chevron. Each cell has a three-light wooden-framed window, originally mullioned, on each floor. The second cell includes a 19th-century doorway with monolithic jambs. The gable is coped, with a stack on the left gable and a replaced 20th-century extruded brick stack on the right gable. The rear of the house has a small outshut on the left end under a cat-slide roof, which contains a window on each floor, with the first floor rendered. There is a former two-light double-chamfered mullioned window on the rear of the first cell that lacks its mullion, along with another small window above.

Inside, the doorway opens against the side of the gable fireplace. The outshut provides a single room of uncertain purpose, possibly used for a stair, a garderobe, or storage.

The Hearth Tax returns for 1672 list Robert Bolland, whose initials likely appear above the front door.