Two Trees Farmhouse And Attached Farmbuildings

Farmhouse and attached farmbuildings, probably dating from the 17th and early 18th centuries, altered and partly remodelled in the mid-19th century. The farmhouse is now a house. Constructed of limestone rubble, some squared and coursed, with ashlar dressings, and has a plain-tile roof with rubble-and-brick stacks. It has a 4-unit plan. The right half of the 6-window front is likely from the 17th century at ground floor level and the early 19th century above. It features 12-pane sashes at the first floor, and two further sashes, one 4 panes wide, spaced irregularly below, all with ashlar flat arches and projecting keyblocks. The 3-window section to the left is built of squared rubble and has regularly arranged 12-pane sashes, also with projecting keyblocks. The doorway, now sheltered by a late-19th century stone porch with a Tudor-arched entrance, is set to the right of the windows and is positioned below a datestone inscribed "18 A 39/EE/1722" (the later date being a later addition). The roof, with a gable stack to the right and rubble-based stacks flanking the 18th-century section, continues to the left over a rubble section, formerly a granary, which has a doorway to the front. A lower barn range to the left has a corrugated-asbestos roof and includes an old plank doorway with a curved head. The rear of the house has additional sashes and 20th-century dormers, the granary section has an external stone stair, and the barn range has large double doors. Inside the earlier section of the house are massive chamfered beams and very thick ground-floor walls; the 18th-century range has a stop-chamfered beam and a fine open-well stair, rising to the attics, with turned balusters, a moulded closed string, and a moulded square handrail (probably contemporary, but possibly slightly earlier). Both sections have butt-purlin roofs with through tenons. The barn has a 4-bay roof, one truss of which is likely from the early 17th century or older, featuring principals tenoned into a heavy saddle, along with mortices for windbraces, and trenches for purlins.