Prospect Farmhouse

Prospect Farmhouse is a timber-framed farmhouse, likely dating to the early 16th century, with significant modifications and extensions in the later 16th or early 17th century, the 17th century, and the early and late 19th centuries. The structure is primarily timber-framed with red brick nogging, with some areas rebuilt in brick and stone rubble, and the west end rendered. It has a slate roof with gabled ends. Brick and stone rubble lateral stacks feature tall brick shafts.

Originally, the house comprised a three-room plan facing south, featuring a small open hall, a large inner room to the east with a chamber above, and a low end to the west. In the later 16th or early 17th century, the low end was remodeled and extended, with a narrow smoke-bay inserted in place of the former cross-passage to heat the redesigned low end room, and a further room built to extend the low end of the house. The hall was probably floored in the 17th century. An outshut containing a drawing room was added to the north rear of the low end in the early 19th century, and in the later 19th century, an entrance hall and kitchen wing were constructed on the front of the low end, alongside further service wings. The lateral stacks on the front of the hall and the low end were likely built in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.

The north elevation showcases a plank door to the right of the center, flanked by 19th-century 2-light casements with glazing bars. Matching casements are present in two raking dormers above. A large outshut is on the right, and open-fronted cart bays are on the left. The east gable end has an external stone staircase leading to a loft door. The west gable end has early 19th-century 2-light casements on each floor, featuring 2-centred arches and leaded panes, along with a French casement on the left. The south elevation presents single-storey service wings and a doorway with a slated lean-to canopy to the left.

The remodelled west end incorporates 19th-century joinery, including stairs, panelled doors, cupboards, and chimneypieces with iron grates. The kitchen contains an iron range and a moulded iron oven door in the back of a lateral stack. Chamfered ceiling beams and some exposed framing are visible. The former cross-passage retains a deeply chamfered smoke-bay bressumer with straight-cut stops. Closed trusses are situated on either side of the hall, featuring tie-beams, braces, collars, and queen-posts; the frame and plaster infill are smoke-blackened on the sides facing the hall. The truss on the low side of the hall is also lightly smoke-blackened. Further features include trenched purlins, with replaced common-rafters. The chamber above the inner room has exposed purlins. The attic chambers over the west end are ceiled, but framing of closed trusses and gable end are exposed, along with large storey-posts with straight braces to the tie-beams and collars, and exposed purlins.