The Old Farmhouse

The Old Farmhouse is an early 17th-century farmhouse, incorporating elements of a 15th or 16th-century building, with later additions and alterations. It is timber-framed, with the infill removed during a resurvey in July 1986, and has roughly coursed limestone rubble to the right gable end. The roofs were also slate-covered, a feature lost during the resurvey. The farmhouse has a basic L-plan, consisting of a long north-south range with a stone dairy projecting at a right angle to the rear on the left, and a parallel stone range forming an angle to the rear, now reduced to its bottom courses. It is one storey and attic in height, with a two-storeyed gable roughly in the centre of the long range.

The gable framing has three square panels from the cill to the wall-plate, with short straight tension braces, close-set vertical posts and a middle rail to the first floor, and herringbone struts to the jettied apex. There is interlaced decoration to the bressumer and elaborately carved corner brackets. To the left of the gable and to the left gable end, the framing features three square panels from cill to wall-plate with close-set vertical posts and a middle rail, while the original back wall has a mix of square panels and close-set vertical posts. A three-light 19th-century casement window is located on the first floor of the gable, and a mid-20th century flat-roofed eaves dormer is present to the right of the long range. Doorways are visible to the right and formerly to the extreme left of the long range. A prominent stone stack is located immediately in front of the ridge to the left of the gable, and has been enlarged in red brick with a moulded capping. The external end stack to the right is also finished in red brick.

The interior of the long range, formerly open to the roof to the right of the stack, now has an inserted deep-chamfered cross-beam ceiling with wave-moulded stops. The roof is a collar and tie beam structure in three bays, with possible signs of smoke blackening on the first truss to the right of the stack. This area includes an inglenook fireplace on the ground floor, featuring a slightly cambered moulded wooden lintel and a moulded stone jamb to the left. A cast-iron hour-glass grate is present in the fireplace on the first floor. A jowled wall post is located in line with the stack against the back wall, and several reused timbers are visible throughout. Rebuilding in the 20th century was more extensive to the left of the stack, but criss-cross trusses suggest a two-bay roof may have been raised. The building was undergoing comprehensive restoration at the time of resurvey.