Ansell'S Farmhouse

Ansell's Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 18th century, although it may include parts of an earlier building. It has seen later additions and alterations. The structure is built of uncoursed limestone rubble and features a steep-pitched hipped stone slate roof for the main range, with half-hipped and gabled roofs for the service ranges and attached outbuildings. The farmhouse is two storeys high with an attic and has a three-window front. The windows are glazing bar sashes, with 16 panes on the ground floor, set in moulded stone surrounds with dripstones, likely replacing earlier mullion windows. There are three hip-roofed dormers located in the middle of the roof slope.

The central entrance features a flush six-panel door, with the top panels now glazed, set in a moulded stone surround topped with a bracketed open-pedimented hood. To the left, there is an extruded external end stack with paired and rebated shafts, moulded capping, and a dripstone. To the right is a later, lower half-hipped service range, which has a tall ridge stack to the left with paired and rebated shafts, capping, and a dripstone. This service range also includes a set-back section on the ground floor with a three-light 19th-century casement window and a wooden lintel. An integral lateral stack with a tall red brick shaft is located to the right.

At the rear, the back wall of the main range features three-light mullion windows in the centre on each floor, interrupted by a 19th-century lean-to on the left. There is an infilled window, likely once a two-light window, with a dripstone on the first floor to the right. A gabled range projecting at right angles to the left of the lower service range may date from the 17th century and contains a granary on the upper level, which is accessed by external lateral steps.

The interior has been significantly altered in the late 20th century but still retains a stone-flag floor on the ground floor, some panelled doors, and chamfered ceiling beams.