Home Farmhouse

Home Farmhouse, now a house, likely dates to around 1700, although it incorporates a probable early 17th-century or earlier core, with 19th-century additions. The exterior is constructed of dressed Hoar Edge Grit sandstone, roughly dressed at the rear, and includes some timber framing with plastered infill panels. Coursed sandstone rubble forms later additions, and the roofs are covered in plain tiles. The house is arranged in an irregular U-plan.

The front elevation features a 1:1:1 window arrangement with gabled wings and two integral lateral stone stacks to the rear, one positioned slightly off-centre to the left. The windows are stone, with three lights and flat-faced mullions, with double-chamfered reveals. Recessed blind oval panels are set into the gables. The central entrance has a boarded door with a heavy bolection-moulded architrave, a pulvinated frieze, and a triangular pediment. A mounting block is attached to the return of the left-hand wing. The right-hand gable end has two-light mullioned windows and a single attic window. A one-light, double-chamfered stone window is located at the rear, while other rear windows have been replaced in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The interior reveals timber-framed cross-walls with square panels and closely spaced uprights, middle rails, chamfered beams and joists with ogee stops. A large, probable early 17th-century open fireplace is present in the dining room, featuring chamfered stone reveals and an ogee-stopped chamfered lintel. A late 17th-century fireplace is in a ground-floor room at the rear, with a roll-moulded segmental arch and a crude segmental pediment above, bearing a carved winged angel in the tympanum. A ground-floor front room to the right has a large open corner fireplace with stone reveals and a substantial lintel. A first-floor room on the right has an early 18th-century corner fireplace with a bolection-moulded architrave and a pulvinated frieze to the mantlepiece. A first-floor room on the left includes a 17th-century panelled cupboard and a blocked stone fireplace. Another left-hand bedroom features an 18th-century door with six raised and fielded panels, and an introduced fireplace with a bolection-moulded architrave, moulded cornice, and a bolection-moulded panel above. Original 17th and 18th century boarded and two-panel doors lead to the first-floor rooms. The roof structure consists of collar and tie-beam trusses with queen struts and v-struts. A small, two-light, flat-faced mullioned attic window, formerly located beneath the oval panel in the right-hand gable, was removed during a restoration in the 1960s. While the windows appear to have 18th-century-style flat-faced mullions, the double-chamfered reveals suggest an earlier date. The house may have originated as a 16th or early 17th century timber-framed building, which was remodelled and partly rebuilt in stone in the mid- to late 17th century, with further remodeling around 1700 when the mullions were replaced, the doorway altered, and the blind panels added.