Parsonage Farmhouse

Farmhouse, now house. Late seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth century, with nineteenth and twentieth century alterations. Red brick in various bonds; plain tile roof with crested ridge tiles; Welsh slate to nineteenth-century wing; brick stacks.

The building comprises a three-bay seventeenth-century central-chimney house, with a two-bay early eighteenth-century addition to the right; a mid-eighteenth-century cross-wing added to the right again; a late eighteenth-century rear outshut added to the earlier eighteenth-century part, and a mid-nineteenth-century wing added to the rear right of the seventeenth-century part. The entrance front of the seventeenth-century part was originally on what is now the rear side.

South elevation (present entrance front) is arranged as 3, 2 and 1 bays, with the right bay gabled. There is a plinth and platt band. The nineteenth-century part-glazed door with round-arched panels stands in bay 4, on the right, within a gabled porch with shouldered archway and late twentieth-century window on the left and two-light casement on the right. A French window opens to bay 1, a nineteenth-century canted bay window to bay 3, and a two-light casement to the right-hand bay. Bays 1, 3, 4 and 5 have two-light casements in gabled dormers; a two-light casement lights the right-hand bay. All gables have curved bargeboards. The roof is hipped at the junction with the right-hand bay. A large ridge stack stands to bay 2 with paired recesses.

The rear elevation shows two right bays of the seventeenth-century part with plinth and platt band; a blocked doorway to the left bay, a glazed door on the left, a late twentieth-century window on the right, and a gabled dormer with an eighteenth-century two-light leaded iron casement. The seventeenth-century left bay is masked by the nineteenth-century wing, which has a gable stack, and to the right end of its right return a Gothic stair window. On the left of this wing is a late eighteenth-century outshut with an old board door with small segmental-arched leaded light to the left. To the left end is a wing with an addition to its gable end, and to its right return a two-light window under a sunken segmental arch.

The left (west) return has a plinth, platt band and eaves band; a nineteenth-century hipped-roofed bay window to the ground floor, a two-light leaded iron casement above, and a one-light window in the gable. The right return has a plinth and platt band; two late twentieth-century wood casements of two and three lights to the ground floor; some blue headers to the first floor.

Interior: The seventeenth-century part contains a brick fireplace with chamfered timber bressummer. In the first-floor left-hand room are broad floorboards and a spine-beam with deep chamfer and run-out stops; at the right end is a collared roof truss with mortices in the principal rafters from former purlins. Old panelled doors retain strap and L-hinges. The right wing has a chamfered beam with lambs-tongue stops in the front room, a brick fireplace with timber bressummer and bread-oven to the rear room, and in the rear addition a long stone sink.