Shelfield Farmhouse

Shelfield Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, with later additions and alterations. It features a timber frame with brick infill, and the front wall has been rebuilt in stone and is now roughcast. The roof is slate. The building has a five-bay baffle-entry plan and is one storey with an attic. The late 20th-century casement windows include four on the ground floor, one of which is to the left of a half-glazed door in a lean-to projection, and there are three gabled eaves dormers. There is a subsidiary entrance through a boarded door immediately to the right of the left window. A red brick ridge stack is positioned directly above the half-glazed door.

Inside, some of the timber frame is partly exposed on the back wall (which has been renewed) and there are square panels on the cross walls. The ground-floor room to the right of the stack, which has a large inglenook fireplace, features a massive chamfered cross beam supported by a cast-iron column at the front, likely dating from the time of the front walls' rebuilding, along with heavy joists. There is a straight-flight oak staircase behind the stack. The ground-floor room at the far right has 19th-century shelves inset in the wall to the right of the fireplace. The farmhouse contains plank and muntin doors with pointed strap hinges throughout and original floorboards on the first floor. The collar and tie beam roof in five bays (including the chimney bay) has exposed trusses, and a large stepped brick stack was concealed by plasterboard at the time of the last survey in December 1985. A prominent two-storey 19th-century addition attached to the right is not considered to have special architectural interest.