Hoathly Farmhouse

Hoathly Farmhouse is a house dating from the late 17th century, with possibly an earlier core, and clad in the 18th century. It features a timber frame covered with dressed sandstone and red and blue chequered brick, topped with a plain tiled roof. The building has a regular square plan that includes at least three different phases of construction.

The main elevation is made of sandstone, consisting of two storeys and a basement set on a plinth, with a stone dentil cornice beneath a hipped roof. There are brick stacks at both ends of the roof. The windows, which were altered in the late 19th century, include two four-light mullioned and transomed windows on each floor, segmentally headed on the ground floor, a central three-light window on the first floor, and a central glazed door on the ground floor featuring a traceried rectangular fanlight and a flat hood supported by brackets, with a flight of three steps leading up to it. There is also a basement opening to the right.

The return and rear elevations are constructed of brick, with the hipped roof extending at the rear to create a single storey and attic, which includes two large gabled dormers, a free-standing stack, segmentally headed casements, and a rear door. A single-storey service wing projects from the rear, built of mixed brick and stone, featuring carriage doors at the left end and two half-doors.

Inside, the rear ranges are framed in at least two phases, with a large kitchen that includes an inglenook dated 1696, an attached domed bread oven, and an early 19th-century iron range in the inglenook. Parts of the frame are exposed in various locations, and the timbers are not of large scantling. The interior also retains many original boarded doors with strap hinges and iron latches. There is an 18th/19th-century range with a stone inglenook, a dogleg stair with turned newels and stick balusters, and a stone-lined cellar with a flagstone floor and a lattice-partitioned dairy or cheesery.