1 and 2, The Square

The Square numbers 1 and 2 are a farmhouse, now divided into two separate houses. The building likely dates from the early 18th century, although it has undergone later additions and alterations. The exterior is constructed from roughly coursed limestone rubble, with a stone slate roof and concrete tiles to the rear. The farmhouse follows a roughly three-unit baffle-entry plan. The windows are 19th-century casements with wood lintels; those on the first floor align directly below the eaves, with two to the left and one to the right of a 20th-century half-glazed door positioned centrally beneath a gabled stone porch. A small gabled dormer is visible in the roof slope to the right. The farmhouse features an integral end entrance with dripstones, a ridge stack with a yellow brick shaft, and end stacks with 20th-century brown brick shafts. A gabled staircase projection extends to the rear. The interior of number 1 (the left part) was inspected and reveals chamfered ceiling beams in the ground and first-floor rooms, and an inglenook fireplace with a chamfered wood lintel in the right-hand ground-floor room. A wide oak winder staircase rises from the ground floor to the attic within the rear projection. The roof structure is a common rafter design with collars and a central tie beam. A range at right angles to the rear, on the right side of number 2, is not considered to be of particular architectural interest.