Venus Bank Farmhouse

Venus Bank Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around 1600, with later additions and alterations. It features a timber frame with painted brick infill, cladding, and rebuilding, while the rear of the hall range is roughcast. The roof is covered with concrete tiles. The hall range appears to consist of four framed bays, with an 11-bay cross-wing projecting to the right. The building has two storeys.

The framing of the hall range includes irregular small square panels, with four panels from the cill to the wall-plate, long and short straight tension braces, and V-struts from the collar to the right gable end. The cross-wing has close studding beneath the girding beam, long straight tension braces, one square panel above, and jowled wall-posts at the gable. The hall range and the left side of the cross-wing have late 19th-century windows, including one three-light casement on each floor of the hall range, a small top-hung casement to the left, and a segmental-headed three-light casement on the ground floor of the cross-wing. There is a 20th-century nail-studded door at the angle between the ranges. The right gable end of the hall range and the right side of the cross-wing feature late 20th-century casements, including a prominent contemporary gabled dormer in the roof slope.

A notable axial rubblestone ridge stack in two sections is located directly above the door to the hall range, along with an external rubblestone stack (topped with 20th-century red brick) at the gable of the cross-wing. To the rear of the hall range, there is a 19th-century rubblestone lean-to dairy with a plain tile roof.

The interior was not accessible during the resurvey in December 1985, but it was noted to have a chamfered cross-beam ceiling in the cross-wing. The left ground-floor room of the hall range features a massive deep-chamfered cross-beam with heavy joists, and both the hall range and cross-wing have 20th-century stone fireplaces.