The Old House

The Old House is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It features datestones at the top of its cross gables marked IY/HY 16/70. The building is constructed from coursed limestone rubble and has a stone slate roof with a limestone rubble stack. It has a 2-unit lobby-entry plan and stands two storeys high with an attic, displaying a two-window range. The original door, located in a central gabled porch, has been blocked by a 20th-century window and wall, with the house now entered from a block to the left. There are chamfered timber lintels above the 20th-century casements, except for a 18th-century three-light wood-mullioned cross window to the left of the door. The gabled roof features two cross gables at the front, along with ridge and left external gable end stacks. A staircase projection with a hipped roof is located at the centre of the rear elevation.

Inside, the house has a full set of chamfered and stopped beams and joists throughout, along with original ribbed doors leading to the newel stairs in the rear projection and on the first floor. The roof has a 4-bay collar-truss design with tusk-tenoned butt purlins. A mid-20th-century passage at the rear of the house includes reset late 17th-century panelling. To the left of the house, there are cottages that have been partly demolished and remodelled in the mid-20th century, featuring limestone rubble walling and a stone slate gabled roof, with timber lintels over the main entry to the house and 20th-century casements. The initials IY and HY on the front of the house likely refer to the Yates family, a prosperous local yeoman family from the 17th century. In the 19th century, this building was known as Duckett's Farmhouse.