Old Farmhouse

The Old Farmhouse is a late 16th and later 17th century farmhouse. It is timber-framed and roughcast rendered, with brick (also rendered) added to a small 18th-19th century addition to the west crosswing. The building has a plain-tiled roof with a ridge stack of coursed sandstone, incorporating shafts of narrow red brick with V-shaped pilasters; the upper courses have been rebuilt and the stack is now internal to the right-hand crosswing. The original design consisted of a main range with a crosswing at the east end, to which a further crosswing was added and subsequently extended, resulting in an irregular H-shaped plan.

The main range is two storeys high and features 18th-19th century iron-frame casement windows, some with original leaded lights and fastenings. A lobby-entry doorway has an early 19th century doorcase with reeded details, corner boss enrichments, and a narrow hood. The east crosswing, also of two storeys and with attics, has similar fenestration, with some enlarged ground floor casements. The later west crosswing is two storeys high and has a service end extended in the 18th-19th centuries towards the road, built of brick.

Inside the main range, the layout is of two principal bays with a narrower chimney bay. There is a large inglenook hearth with a lining of red brick. A stone staircase, now blocked, is located beside the stack and suggests the first floor was originally ceiled or that the staircase is a later addition. The roof is of a clasped side purlin design, with the ends of the purlins passing over the backs of the principals to form through-purlins. It includes Queen posts, two tiers of purlins with short raking struts to the upper collars, trussed and pegged principal rafters, and pegged common rafters, and lacks a ridge piece. A 3-light casement with a splayed mullion remains at the west gable end, now internal, indicating the west crosswing is an addition. The east crosswing features boxed ceiling beams and a hearth, possibly an inglenook, with blocked hearths on the first floor. Main posts have jowled heads. The roof of the east crosswing is of similar construction to the main range, with wind bracing to two tiers of through-purlins. The west crosswing has four bays, with one truss removed, and a roof of less complex construction, retaining a ridge piece, along with a sandstone inglenook hearth with brick above the ridge.