Abbey Farmhouse And Attached Outbuildings

Abbey Farmhouse and attached outbuildings is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century to the rear left, with an early 18th-century wing and stair turret to the right, and a mid-18th-century wing to the left of the front. The construction is of coursed and uncoursed limestone rubble, with limestone ashlar quoins and dressings to the rear left, and brick quoins and dressings to the rest of the house. It has a stone slate roof and brick stacks. The building is arranged in an L-shape, with two storeys and a 6-window range to the left gable, a central stair turret, and a recessed 2-bay right wing. A segmental arch is above the plank door to the stair turret. A late 20th-century porch is present. The left wing has segmental arches over late 19th-century three-light casements and a 20th-century casement to the front; the early 18th-century block to the right has flat brick arches over late 19th-century and 20th-century two-light casements, and a 20th-century segmental arch over a 20th-century window. The front blocks have separate hipped roofs, the rear left block has a gabled roof, and there are lateral brick stacks, with a large stack between the 17th and mid-18th-century blocks.

Inside the 17th-century block, a queen-post truss remains, along with evidence of a timber-framed partition below. There is also a chamfered stone fireplace and a chamfered and stopped beam in a heightened ground-floor room. The early 18th-century block features winder stairs rising around an open wall, with barley-sugar balusters on a closed string. A bolection-moulded door is set within a bolection-moulded architrave, leading to a similar panelled room with a similar architrave to the fireplace; a pastoral scene is painted on the overmantel panel, and the fielded panels are decorated with white and ochre marbling and Chinoiserie scenes. The mid-18th-century wing to the front left has chamfered beams and a king-post roof.

Attached to the left is a one-storey range of 18th-century brick with a stone slate roof. To the rear is a two-storey, 3-bay cartshed of the 18th century, with brickwork to the rear and 20th-century brick to the front, under a half-hipped stone slate roof. A one-storey range to the left is of brick, partly in Flemish bond with flared headers, and has a gabled old tile roof. Inside the barn is a 18th-century plank door leading to a quarter-turn staircase, and a 3-bay collar-truss roof. The panelled room with its marbled and Chinoiserie decoration is noted as a rare example of 18th-century interior decoration.