Castle Farm House

Farmhouse, dating approximately to 1600, with elements from the 17th century, and minor alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. Constructed of coursed limestone rubble, with ashlar quoins and dressings. It has stone-coped slate roofs with a single gable brick stack on a stone plinth and a single brick ridge stack to the rear. The building follows a "T" plan. It is two storeys high, with garrets, and has an irregular three-bay front with a chamfered stone plinth. A blocked doorway is positioned off-centre, featuring a moulded stone surround, a four-centred arched head, and a cornice. To the left of the blocked doorway is a 3-light window from the 20th century, and to the right a rectangular 3-light bay window with a sloping slate roof. A 2-light stone mullioned window at mezzanine level illuminates the staircase. The first floor has a similar 2-light window to the eaves, flanked by single 3-light mullioned windows. The right-hand gable has pairs of 2-light mullioned windows to both the ground and first floors, and two blocked lights in the garret. The left-hand gable contains a single blocked 3-light window to the ground floor, a similar first-floor window, and a 2-light garret window. Rear extensions, dating to the 19th and 20th centuries, are built of brick and stone.

Inside, the right-hand room features a moulded stone fire surround with a flat head, 17th-century oak panelling (full height on one wall, to dado height on others), and a chamfered beam with a shield-shaped ogee plaque. The dog-leg staircase has stout bobbin balusters with a moulded handrail. The walls flanking the stair are timber-framed with substantial posts and rail. A moulded stone fire surround, matching that in the room below and with a deeply moulded cornice supporting a plaster panel of approximately 1600 character, is found in the right-hand bedroom. A central fluted pilaster, supporting a figure, is flanked by single half-round columns on decorative plinths. One panel depicts Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and the other panel portrays Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac, with a raised panel inscribed "Abraham his Faith". The figures are in relief and in contemporary costume, with significant traces of original colour remaining. Sections of frieze with inhabited vinescroll are located on either side of the overmantel, partially obscured by a chamfered ceiling girder and a plastered ceiling.