Bank Farmhouse And Attached Barn

Bank Farmhouse and attached barn are a farmhouse, now a house, and a former threshing barn. The farmhouse dates to the early to mid-17th century, with later additions and alterations. It is constructed of roughcast timber frame, with sections weatherboarded to the rear and small narrow bricks to the right gable end. It has an uncoursed limestone rubble plinth and a graded slate roof. The original plan comprised two cells, with the right bay likely originally open to the roof, featuring an integral end stack that probably replaced a smoke hood. The attached barn to the right was likely built on the site of the lower end of the original house, which may have continued to the right of the present stack. The farmhouse has one storey and an attic. The front features a 3-light 19th-century cast-iron casement, a 4-panel door (with the top panels now glazed) to the right, and a contemporary glazed door with a matching casement to the left. A wide mid-20th-century gabled eaves dormer is located to the left of the centre. A red brick ridge stack, rebuilt in the 19th century brick above the ridge, sits at the junction with the barn, and there are projecting boxed single-purlin ends to the left. A 19th-century rubblestone lean-to, altered in the 20th century, adjoins the left gable end.

The barn, of the late 17th century, has a weatherboarded timber frame on an uncoursed limestone rubble plinth, with a graded slate roof matching the pitch of the house. There are three doorways to the rear—left and centre—with stable doors.

The interior of the farmhouse reveals large square timber-framed panels on the front and back walls. The right ground-floor room includes a plank and muntin screen to the left, with square-headed doorways at each end. An inserted ceiling has straight-cut stops to the joists. An inglenook fireplace features a chamfered wooden lintel and a 19th-century bread oven. A 17th-century winder staircase is located to the left of the stack, with solid block oak treads and moulded newel posts. An infilled doorway to the right of the stack originally led to a cowhouse. The left ground-floor room has a chamfered cross beam and joists. 17th-century wide boarded oak floorboards are visible on the first floor, stepping towards the stack, which is visible behind 19th-century tongue and groove boarding in the right room. The roof is of collar and tie-beam construction in two bays, with a king strut and raking struts to the principal rafters of the left truss.

The barn’s timber frame is visible with square panels extending from cill to wall-plate, and incorporates a shaped doorway to the front. Many reused timbers are present. The double-purlin roof is of three bays, with raking struts from tie beams to the principal rafters.