Shellow Cross Farmhouse

Shellow Cross Farmhouse is a mid-17th century farmhouse that is timber framed and plastered, featuring fragments of old chevron pargetting on the rear wall. The building has two storeys and attics, topped with a peg tiled gabled roof. At the rear, there is a one-storey and attics block with two gabled 20th-century dormers on the east-facing slope. The rear also includes a three-storey stair tower with a gabled peg tile roof and a single-storey gabled outhouse extending out, constructed with red brick and tarred weatherboarded walls, topped with a hipped roof. The northern termination of this outhouse has a similar tarred boarded wall block.

The farmhouse features an off-centre 'L' shaped ridge line stack and a smaller stack against the west gable wall. The front of the house has three tripartite double hung sash windows, all 20th-century replicas with single central vertical glazing bars. The ground floor has similar windows, along with a 20th-century peg tile gable enclosed porch that is off-centre. The east end showcases original moulded bargeboards.

At the rear, there is a one-storey and attics brewhouse range, constructed with mid-17th century timber framing, which includes a large 18th-century arched, iron reinforced inglenook fireplace in the old end smoke bay. This section consists of four equal bays of substantial timber framing, with much reused timber that appears to be from the 14th and 15th centuries. It has unjowled posts and an unusual massive side purlin windbraced roof with interrupted tie beams connecting to internal vertical posts in the attic space, which has a large window to the west gable. The farmhouse was extended in the late 17th century by one bay at the west end.

The original stair tower interrupts the top plate and features an early 16th-century and late 15th-century door, with a moulded door jamb and 'vase' base reused at the head of a largely original newel stair that has an octagonal newel post. Some original internal doors remain, including a shallow arched door head with its jambs from the original front door, still in place. The interior includes a fitted 18th-century corner cupboard with a dentilled cornice and guilloche frieze, a mid-18th-century fitted dresser with raised and fielded panels, and a similar, though possibly earlier, cupboard fixed to the upper landing wall.