Rowley Farmhouse

Rowley Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 17th century, with its eaves raised in the late 18th century and featuring later additions and alterations. The building is timber framed with painted brick infill set on a painted rubblestone plinth, along with a painted rubblestone addition. It has a graded slate roof and slate hanging on the left gable end. The farmhouse has a baffle-entry plan consisting of four framed bays, with an additional single bay added to the right and the eaves raised in the late 18th century.

The structure is two storeys high. The framing includes one rectangular and one square panel with long straight tension braces extending from the cill to the original wall-plate, along with one square panel above. There are inserted horizontal timbers that likely date to the raising of the eaves. On the upper floor, there are five late 19th-century casements directly below the eaves, while the ground floor features four casements: two on the left from the late 20th century and two on the right (flanking the door) from the late 19th century, with the one in the late 18th-century addition having a segmental stone head. The entrance is located to the right of centre and consists of a six-panel door set within a plain pilastered doorcase topped with a flat hood.

There is a brown brick axial ridge stack immediately to the right and an external limestone end stack to the left with a red brick shaft. A 19th-century rubblestone lean-to dairy is attached to the right gable end. Inside, the ground-floor rooms feature chamfered spine beams, with the beam in the main room (the third from the left) having ogee stops and heavy joists. The wide inglenook fireplace in this room has been filled in, and there is stone flag flooring in the right ground-floor room of the 17th-century part. An oak winder staircase leads from the back wall of the main ground-floor room, and there is a ladder staircase to the former hayloft in the 18th-century addition. Original oak floorboards are present in the first-floor rooms, along with plank and muntin doors throughout.