Fir Tree Farmhouse And Cottage

Fir Tree Farmhouse and Cottage is a farmhouse and adjoining cottage dating from the early 17th century. It is constructed from coursed and squared rubble with a plain tiled roof. The building features a two-storey hall range with a coped gabled cross wing to the west. The entrance is located against the stack at the eastern end, featuring a roughly moulded stone lintel, while the central section has inserted windows. Stone mullioned windows are preserved in the projecting gable of the western bay and at the rear of this wing, where the original hood mould can still be seen above an inserted door and window.

An added wing at the rear is faced in 19th-century brick, but the main beam and fireplace bressumer inside suggest that it may have been refaced from an earlier structure. The adjoining cottage to the east may have been built around an original cross wing of the farmhouse, as indicated by a blocked doorway in the current entrance porch and visible traces of possible timbering in the walls of the later 19th-century cottage. This cottage is a single unit with a tall double-pile plan.