Old Hardwick Farmhouse

Old Hardwick Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates back to the 17th century, with later additions and alterations. It features a roughcast timber frame and red brick construction, topped with a slate roof that has deep eaves and plain bargeboards. The original T-shaped plan includes a long hall range with a wide gabled cross-wing on the left, and a narrower cross-wing added to the right of the hall range. A two-storey 19th-century gabled addition at the rear creates the current basic H-plan layout. The hall range has one storey and an attic, while the cross-wings are two storeys high.

The windows are arranged in a 1:1:1 pattern, all featuring four-paned horned sashes, with a tripartite window in the centre on the ground floor and in the gabled eaves dormer above. There are 20th-century casements in the canted bays on the ground floor of the cross-wings. A lean-to porch with a half-glazed panelled door is located at the angle between the hall range and the left cross-wing. There is also a lean-to attached to the continuation of the hall range to the right of the right cross-wing.

Prominent features include a stepped external lateral stack to the left of the left cross-wing, a reduced red brick ridge stack to the hall range immediately to the left of the right cross-wing, and an integral end stack to the 19th-century gabled addition at the rear. Additionally, there is a tapering stack with a 19th-century top and an earlier base located in the angle between the outshut of the hall range and the 19th-century gabled addition at the rear.

The interior was not fully inspected during the resurvey in February 1987, but the room to the right of the entrance features two chamfered spine beams and joists, as well as wainscot panelling. The room in the right cross-wing also has chamfered ceiling beams, and a large chimney breast below the ridge stack contains infilled inglenook fireplaces. It is reported that the roof trusses are still intact.