The Old Farmhouse

The Old Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the late 17th century, with a front elevation that was largely altered in the mid to late 20th century. The front is made of red brick laid in stretcher bond, while the left gable end is rendered. The right gable end and the rear are constructed of red and grey brick in an irregular bond. The building has a plain tile roof and is of double depth, originally designed with a central-entry plan. It has two storeys and a garret, featuring a 17th-century chamfered brick plinth on the front elevation and gable ends, a plat band on the rear elevation and right gable end, and a plain eaves band on the front. Each range has a half-hipped roof on the left and right, with the half-hips joined at the top by a ridge.

There is a projecting rendered brick stack with a chamfered plinth and irregular offsets on the left gable end of the front range, and a similar unrendered red and grey brick stack on the right gable end, which has a plain brick cornice band. The front elevation features a regular 20th-century arrangement of three windows, consisting of two three-light casements and a blind central window. On the rear elevation, there is a small rectangular chamfered brick window to the left of centre on the ground floor, a blocked moulded and recessed rectangular brick window on the right gable end in front of the stack, and traces of blocked brick windows at the rear of it. A door is located towards the rear of the right gable end.

To the right, there is a single-storey rear addition from the 19th century, made of red and grey brick, with a gabled plain tile roof, an end stack, and a gabled two-light dormer window on the right side. Inside, the ground floor features chamfered cross beams, while the first floor has axial beams. There is part of a chamfered 17th-century doorway between the ranges towards the centre, and a brick fireplace in English bond with a wooden bressumer on the right end of the ground floor. The building was formerly known as Upper Parkgate Farm.