Cuttshill Farmhouse And Attached Farm Buildings

Cuttshill Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse, now a house, with attached 17th and 18th-century farm buildings. A circa 1920 extension also exists. The farmhouse is mainly timber-framed with painted plaster and brick infill, and a painted brick extension. The farm buildings are timber-framed with reddish-brown brick nogging and weatherboarding, with steeply pitched plain-tile roofs and corrugated iron to the barn.

Originally L-shaped on plan, the farmhouse is now extended to a T-plan, with original external stacks, one incorporated into the ridge, and another to the rear wing. The original part has small square panels of timber-framing with diagonal braces to the rear. It has one-and-a-half storeys and a 3-window upper stage, with a further 20th-century bay to the left. The originally central entrance now has a 20th-century plank door within a moulded wood frame and a tiled hood. The windows are mostly 2-, 3- and 4-light 20th-century casements with glazing bars. The rear and right gable ends have exposed original purlins.

The attached farm buildings form a U-shaped range. A small three-bay threshing barn features timber-framing, weatherboarding, and split plank threshing doors. Adjacent is a bull pen with hayloft over, which is timber-framed with reddish-brown brick, featuring off-centre split plank doors and plank pitching doors. A two-stage cow shed, mainly brick with some timber-framing, incorporates stable doors and pigeon nesting openings.

Inside the farmhouse, the ground floor has extensive exposed timber-framing, including beams with roll-moulded chamfering and chamfered rafters with run-out stops. The farm buildings retain cross-frames to the threshing floors and mangers to the rear wall of the bull pen. The cow sheds have collar-tie-beam trusses with angle struts.