Home Farmhouse

Farmhouse. Dating from the mid 17th century with later 18th century additions, and 19th-century outbuildings at the rear. The farmhouse is timber-framed, with the first floor rendered and the rear wall rebuilt or cased in gault brick. The ground floor front wall is cased in red brick. The steeply pitched roof is now covered in asbestos tiles, with a ridge stack and later upper courses. It is a two-bay, lobby-entry plan, altered in the 19th century when the lobby entry doorway was blocked. There are two first-floor wood casements. A late 17th-century window to a closet on the front (now blocked) was originally of three lights with mullions. Two 19th-century ground floor windows flank the blocked lobby entry doorway. A lean-to pantry was added at the north end, coinciding with the brick casing of the front ground floor wall. A single original window opening with its sill and a 19th-century horizontal sliding sash are visible in the rear wall. A bay was added to the south end in the late 18th century, built of local red brick and featuring a roof covered in asbestos and a gabled end parapet on kneelers. An end stack is present. The bay is one storey and attic high, with two large modern dormers on the front and an enlarged modern window. The original doorway features a wood pilaster doorcase with a dentil cornice and a narrow hood. A detached brick and slate kitchen from the 19th century stands at the rear, with its interior intact. Interior features indicative of the mid 17th century include main posts without jowls, a softwood roof with clasped side purlin-type construction, and the mouldings of the mullions of the blocked front window. The substantial framing, best viewed in the rear and north end walls, may suggest an even earlier date. Downward wall bracing is visible internally in the first-floor closet wall. The ceiling main beams are transverse to the plan. There are back-to-back inglenook hearths. Access to a staircase, which has likely been remodelled, is from a lean-to coal house on the west wall.