Shootrough Farmhouse

Farmhouse. Dating from the late 14th century, with a late 16th-century addition and further alterations and additions in the 18th and 19th centuries. The farmhouse is timber framed with plastered infill panels, with some areas of cruck construction, and partly refaced or rebuilt in coursed brown/grey sandstone rubble, squared and coursed grey sandstone, and red brick, all under a plain tile roof. The plan is a “T” shape, consisting of a two-bay baffle-entry former hall range with a late 16th-century projecting gabled cross wing to the right of the two framed bays, and an 18th-century kitchen addition at the rear. The timber framing features closely-spaced uprights with two rails and tension braces, the gable end having parallel diagonal struts. A jettied gable has a bressumer with quarter-round moulding, chevron decoration, and brackets, and a truss with two collars, queen struts, and more parallel diagonal strutting. The two-storey structure has attic windows. The south-east front has a large gabled eaves dormer to the hall range with a two-light wooden-framed metal casement, and two gabled timber framed eaves dormers with three-light wooden casements to the north-east of the cross wing. There is a central brick ridge stack to the hall range, an external lateral coursed sandstone rubble stack to the right of the cross wing with a brick shaft and pitched-roofed link to the attic, and an integral stone end stack to the rear. The hall range has a three-light segmental-headed wooden-framed metal casement to the right, and a boarded door off-centre to the left. The cross wing has two ground-floor two-light wooden casements and a blocked attic casement. A right-hand return front has a 19th-century four-light wooden casement to the right and two small casements to the left. The interior, which was not inspected, is recorded to contain features of interest, including three full 14th-century cruck trusses in the hall range. The arch-braced central truss has quarter-round moulding on the side facing the former lower end and a double cavetto moulding on the side facing the former upper end, with smoke blackening visible. A late 16th-century inserted floor and stack are in the hall range. An ogee-headed door leads to the cross wing, or former solar. Remains of 16th-century wall paintings are in the parlour on the uprights etc. Early to mid-16th-century panelling is in the hall. The kitchen at the rear of the cross wing is said to have a cloam oven and a bread oven. The farmhouse forms part of a complete farmstead group, including a barn and cow houses.