Handcroft Farmhouse

Handcroft Farmhouse is a farmhouse and barn that has been converted into a single house. It dates from the early 17th century, with some parts rebuilt in the late 17th century, and has undergone alterations in the late 20th century. The building is constructed of coursed limestone rubble, featuring a slate-hung gable end on the southwest side and stone slate roofs.

The house has a two-unit plan that runs at right angles to the road, with the former barn attached to the northeast. It is two storeys high, with the late 17th-century northeast end also having an attic over a basement. The southeast front has a rendered ridge stack positioned off-centre to the left and an external stone end stack to the right, which has a rendered top. There is a dormer on the right side with a rebuilt two-light wooden casement and a slate-hung gable. The late 17th-century section on the right has two first-floor windows and one ground-floor window, all of which are wooden cross windows featuring ogee-stopped chamfered wooden lintels. To the left, there is a small two-light ovolo-moulded mullioned wooden staircase window with an ogee-stopped chamfered wooden lintel.

The early 17th-century lower two-storey section on the left has a first-floor two-light wooden casement and a ground-floor boarded door to the right, which has a wooden lintel. There is also a later one-storey range to the left with an end stack, a three-light wooden casement with a wooden lintel, and a blocked doorway to the right, indicated by straight joints. The former barn is attached to the porch.

Inside the house, there is a winder staircase with an old plank and muntin door leading to the cellar. The left-hand ground-floor room features chamfered beams and a large open fireplace.