New House

New House is a farmhouse, likely dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, with early 19th-century extensions and later alterations. It is now divided into two separate dwellings. The construction is timber-framed with roughly coursed and uncoursed limestone rubble, mostly covered with roughcast rendering. The roof is covered in stone slate and slate. The building's plan has evolved from an H-shaped house, incorporating additional central gables to both the front and rear, a wide gabled range, and flanking lean-tos to the rear of the right gable. Another gabled range projects at right angles from the space between the rear centre gable and the left gable. A two-bay addition in the 19th century extends the front to the right of the right gable. The house has two storeys and attics, with wide boarded eaves to the 19th-century part. It has a 1:2:1 window arrangement on its original H-plan section. The left gable features a glazing bar sash window on the ground floor and a horned 6-paned sash on the first. The centre gable has 19th-century casement windows on the first floor, and to the left of the central 6-panel flush door, which is set under a 19th-century gabled hood. The right gable contains a 4-paned sash window on the first floor and a 16-paned, glazing bar sash window on the ground floor. The 19th-century addition has glazing bar sash windows, with 16 panes to the lower right. An entrance on the left side features a 6-panel door with a wreathed and radiating semi-circular fanlight, similar to that at Weir House, and a hood supported by carved brackets; a matching brass door knocker is present. Projecting single-purlin ends adorn the gables. The left gable has an external rubblestone stack with a red brick shaft; the right gable features a red brick ridge stack with dentilled capping, and an external end stack also with a red brick shaft and dentilled capping, projecting from the right of the 19th-century addition. The gabled range to the rear of the right gable has a large external rubblestone end stack with a red brick shaft, and a red brick ridge stack to the other gabled range at the junction with the main section of the house. The eaves of this gabled range have been raised, and a queen-strut truss with slightly curved principal rafters is visible at the gable end. Steps lead down to a cellar beneath the 19th-century range. An internal inspection, limited to the right section including the right gable of the original H-plan house, revealed plastered walls and ceilings, with restricted roof access. A 19th-century king-post truss is present in the 19th-century addition. Inspection of the left part of the building is likely to reveal further features of interest.