Valley Farmhouse

Valley Farmhouse is a house dating from the early 16th century, with alterations made in the 17th and 19th centuries. It is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof covered with handmade red clay tiles. The main range has three bays facing southeast and features an axial stack in the right bay, along with two three-bay crosswings that each have an external stack at the side, creating an I-plan layout. The building is two storeys high.

On the ground floor, there are two late 19th-century bays with sash windows that have 2-4-2 lights, one early 19th-century sash window with four lights, and French windows with marginal lights. The first floor has four late 19th-century sash windows with four lights each. A half-glazed door is set in a latticed porch with a hipped slate roof, which dates from the late 19th century. The house also features 19th-century bargeboards with moulded finials, and the roofs of the crosswings are hipped at the rear. The main stack has three octagonal shafts.

The interior includes jowled posts and close studding. The hall range has a large wood-burning hearth facing left, which keeps the original cross-entry unobstructed. The inserted floor features moulded transverse and longitudinal beams with lamb's tongue stops (partly boxed in), moulded joists of horizontal section, and moulded clamps, along with a clasped purlin roof. The left crosswing, used as a parlour or solar, has short arched braces to one binding beam, plain joists of unusually heavy horizontal section, one cambered tiebeam with deep arched braces (the other tiebeam is missing), and a crownpost roof with axial bracing. The right crosswing, used for service, has an original studded partition between the middle and rear bays, a half-height jowl of unusual stepped design, and a similar crownpost roof. The upper front room is lined with early 17th-century oak panelling, complemented by a 19th-century reproduction frieze. Original rebated floorboards can be found in both crosswings. This house contains a remarkable range of original interior features, with the possibility of more being present but concealed.