The Old Farmhouse

The Old Farmhouse is a former farmhouse, now a house, dating to the early to mid 17th century, with extensions added in the 20th century. It is built of coursed rubble limestone with stone slate roofs. The chimneys have square ashlar shafts with moulded neckings and cornices; the left and rear gable chimneys have pairs of shafts, and the right chimney has a single, rebuilt shaft. The building is in an L-shape. It is two storeys and has an attic, with two bays on the front. It has hollow-chamfered stone mullion windows; those on the ground floor and rear wing have Tudor hoodmoulds. The left bay has four-light windows, including a gabled roof dormer with a two-light leaded casement in a hollow-chamfered wooden frame. The right bay has a three-light window on the ground floor, and an altered upper storey with a single two-light wooden window and a 20th-century single light. A wide 19th-century half-glazed door is set in a 20th-century porch with a lean-to roof of stone slates. The left gable end of the front wing has a two-light stair window with a double ovolo-moulded wooden lintel. The rear wing has four-light stone mullion windows like those on the front, and blocked stair windows in the far gable. To the right of the front wing is a former outbuilding with a 20th-century artificial stone slate roof and two bays of 20th-century wooden casements. Inside, the left bay contains a large fireplace and axial winder stairs leading to the attic. Traces of a similar staircase are present on the axis with a rear stack. A wall between the front and rear wings retains heavy timber studs at upper storey level. A heavy chamfered spine beam with one end stopped and bracketed is visible in a first-floor room of the rear wing.