Baines Farm Cottages

A house, now two cottages, dating from the 17th century, with alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is timber framed with roughcast rendering and a roof of handmade red plain tiles. It has five bays facing northeast, with two axial stacks and a wing to the rear of the right end, with its own stack. A flat-roofed single-storey extension, built in the 20th century, projects from the rear of the main range, and a similar slate-roofed extension is attached to the rear of the rear wing. Number 1 occupies the portion to the right of the right axial stack, while number 2 comprises the remainder. The house has two storeys and an unlit attic. The front has a four-window arrangement of 20th-century metal casement windows, and a 20th-century half-glazed door with a bracketed lean-to canopy (number 2). A 20th-century door to number 1 is located in the right return. Inside, there are chamfered transverse and axial beams with lamb's tongue stops and unstopped stops. The plain joists are of vertical section, jointed to the beams with soffit tenons and diminished haunches. The left axial stack is large, possibly original, but has 20th-century grates and is fully plastered. Other fireplaces have 20th-century grates. Both storeys are high, and the main frame is jointed and pegged, with many internal studs having been removed. Wallplates are face-halved and bladed. The division of the house into two cottages does not occur at a bay division, suggesting that, in the 19th century, the house was divided into three cottages, two of which were later combined to form number 2. The timber frame is largely concealed by internal finishes. The roof is ceiled.