Common Farmhouse

Common Farmhouse, now a house, largely dates to the late 16th century, with a significant extension in the mid-18th century and later additions and alterations. It is constructed of uncoursed limestone rubble, with alternating angle quoins of well-dressed ashlar to the 18th-century portion; the roofs are covered in stone slate. The original part is a gabled range aligned roughly east-west, with an 18th-century addition set at right angles to the north on the west side, and 19th and 20th-century additions extending at right angles to the south.

The east gable end features four, originally five, light mullion windows, with the right-hand lights filled in and the dripstone reassembled. A three-light mullion window, featuring segmental-headed lights, iron bars, and a dripstone, is positioned off-centre to the first floor, alongside a small, square, chamfered window in the attic. The right return side has a prominent external stepped stack with a moulded dripstone and brick capping, and a semi-circular corbelled projection attached to the left on the first floor. Below the eaves is a small chamfered window with leaded lights, and a two-light mullion window to the ground floor, where the termination of the dripstone cuts into the stack. The left return side has an infilled doorway to the left and a two-light mullion window with a dripstone to the right. The west gable end has two glazing bar sashes to the ground floor, the left being 20th century, and positioned where a doorway was previously infilled. The first floor has a glazing bar sash in a similar surround to the 18th-century part, with an infilled window to the right. Two sloping buttresses are 20th-century additions.

The 18th-century addition has glazing bar sashes in plain stone surrounds with projecting keystones on both floors, and a 20th-century gabled dormer within the roof slope. An integral end stack to the right features a dripstone, with the top rebuilt in the 20th century using red brick. The outline of the former roof pitch of demolished stables is visible below. The 19th-century part has two casements directly below the eaves on the east side, with a three-light window to the lower left and a ledged door with a cambered head to the right.

Inside, the 16th-century part features ground-floor rooms combined into one space, with three deep-chamfered cross beams and chamfered joists with stepped ogee stops. There is a chamfered stone fireplace, and a similar fireplace on the first floor. The ground-floor room of the 18th-century part has a moulded plaster cornice and a spine beam. Inset panelled wall cupboards are positioned to either side of the fireplace; the right cupboard has a scalloped niche and carved shelves. Stone-flag floors are present on the ground floor throughout. The 18th-century part has a collar truss roof with principal rafters rising from wall tops. The roof structure of the 16th-century part was unobservable at the time of resurvey in May 1987.