Smerrills Farmhouse

Smerrills Farmhouse is a late 17th-century farmhouse that was altered in the late 19th century. It is constructed of red brick with stone and brick dressings. The building features a double range slate roof with brick coped gables and two large brick gable stacks positioned just inside the copings. There are plain bands at the plinth, first and second floors, as well as at the eaves level on the gable walls and above the garret windows. The farmhouse is square in plan, consisting of two bays and three storeys plus garrets.

On the south elevation, there is a 20th-century lean-to porch over an off-centre doorcase that has a chamfered stone lintel. Flanking the porch are 19th-century, three-light casement windows, also under chamfered stone lintels. To the east, there is another doorcase with a panelled door and a similar lintel. Above this, there are two 19th-century three-light casements under chamfered lintels, and above those are shallower windows of the same style. The rear elevation features similar windows along with central stair windows at half landing level. The gable walls have small garret windows.

Inside, the farmhouse has inglenook fireplaces in two southern ground floor rooms and original oak panelled doors set in thick, staff moulded oak frames in the ground and first floor rooms. A fine dogleg staircase with turned balusters runs through four floors, featuring a moulded handrail, moulded finials on the stiles, and wide oak treads. The attics and second floor rooms retain original oak plank doors. Notably, the staircase well and the first and second floor rooms have never been plastered. The ground floor ceiling beams are ovolo moulded with bar stops, while elsewhere, the beams are chamfered with ogee stops.