Fifield House

Farmhouse. Dating from the late 17th or possibly early 18th century, with later additions and alterations. The house is constructed of regularly coursed and dressed limestone with ashlar dressings and quoin strips, and has a hipped stone slate roof with a modillion eaves cornice. It is two storeys and an attic, with a moulded floor band and moulded plinth to a semi-basement. The front has five windows, with 18-paned glazing bar sashes in moulded surrounds. A central entrance features half-glazed double doors and a decorated rectangular overlight, leading to a semi-circular flight of steps with ball finials at each end of ramped coping and small pilastered piers flanking the door. The semi-basement has two-light chamfered mullion windows directly below the ground-floor sashes, the inner right window replaced by a 20th-century window, with narrow rectangular chamfered windows on either side of the steps. The left return shows blind windows in moulded surrounds to each floor, a two-light mullion window to the semi-basement, and a flat-roofed dormer in the bottom of the roof slope. The right return is similar, except that the windows have glazing bar sashes painted to imitate the appearance, and it has a 20th-century French casement to the semi-basement. A stepped external lateral stack is located on the rear to the right, while a similar integral stack is to the left, with a hip-roofed staircase projection between. This projection has a two-light chamfered mullion window to the semi-basement, a two-light chamfered mullion window on the second floor, and a fixed-light window in an earlier surround on the level in between. A lower, flat-roofed range is attached to one side. Gabled dormers are present in the roof slope of the main range. Gabled service ranges are attached at right-angles to the rear on the left, with a 20th-century range running at right-angles to the left, towards the farmyard. Internally, a 17th/early 18th-century dog-leg staircase is located at the back of the central hall within the hip-roofed projection, rising from the semi-basement to the attic. It features turned balusters to an open string, a moulded handrail, and square newels. The left ground-floor room has a plaster cornice with an egg and dart moulding, and a bolection moulded fireplace in the room above. Wide floorboards are present on the ground floor, first floor and attic, as are two-panel doors with H-hinges throughout.