Cherry Farm

Cherry Farm, now divided into two dwellings, dates from the 17th century and was extended in the early 19th century, with later modifications. It is constructed of rubble and squared coursed sandstone, with pantile roofs.

The original farmhouse had a narrow, single-depth, three-room cross passage layout, and includes a partial basement. There is a 300mm projection forward at the first bay, with a slight break in the roof slope, and the farmhouse was extended to the left in a single, wide, deep bay.

The exterior is two storeys high, with a partial basement to the right, displaying a 1+1+2 window arrangement. No. 1 has a two-light casement window on each floor, set in broad, flush dressed surrounds, with a four-panel door from the 19th century to the right, marking the joint with No. 2. The central section has a small four-pane window from the 19th century above a three-light and a six-panel door, both set under wooden lintels. The projecting bay has a two-light casement window on the first floor, a small two-light casement near the left-hand door, and a large 20th-century steel sash window to the right. Each gable has coped stones, with an ashlar stack, and the party junction features a small brick ridge stack. The right return has a two-light window above a lateral lean-to, and there is evidence in the masonry of a raising of the roofline. The left return displays a two-light window above a partially glazed door, both in flush dressed surrounds. The rear of No. 1 has a late 20th-century raking dormer above the doorway, and a blocked doorway is visible on the external face of the party wall. The original farmhouse has two ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned casement windows at eaves level, a matching wooden casement lower down to the right, and two similar stone-mullioned casements with drip courses on the ground floor, along with a four-pane sash window in a flush surround and a glazed door under a later lean-to.

The interior retains many original features, including plank and panelled doors. Deep bressumer fireplaces are located at each end of the main farmhouse; the one on the right incorporates a salt cupboard. A wooden winder staircase descends to a two-part basement with differing floor levels in stone, featuring badly worn roughly chamfered beams with run-out stops, and supported in part on brick piers. A staircase on the front wall to the right of the doorway continues to the first floor, which has few visible features of interest. The roof space was not inspected.