Little Beside Farmhouse

Little Beside Farmhouse is a house dating from the early 19th century, with a 19th-century lean-to addition to the west and a 20th-century extension to the east end.

The house is constructed from granite rubble walls with dressed granite quoins, sills, jambstones, and lintels. The main roof is covered in asbestos slate, with red clay capping tiles at the ridges, and the chimney is of brick. The additions are covered in corrugated asbestos and asbestos slates.

The plan originally featured two front rooms and two rear rooms forming a double-depth layout, formerly with a central through-passage. 19th-century service rooms are within the western lean-to, with a small 20th-century addition to the east.

The building is two storeys and three bays. The symmetrical south front has a central doorway within a 20th-century gabled, glazed porch and a 20th-century door. This is flanked by horned, four-paned sash windows with exposed sash boxes, with two similar windows above. The main range's roof is half-hipped. To the right, the eastern extension is painted over render and has 20th-century patio doors and a small brick chimney. To the left, the roof of the 19th-century lean-to extension rises almost to the wall-plate of the main range; this extension is also painted over stone and render. The rear of the main range is similar to the front but features a blocked window over the doorway, six-over-six (ground-floor) and eight-over-eight (first-floor) hornless sashes with glazing bars, and a 20th-century door.

The interior features a staircase that rises in a straight flight, then breaks forward and back to provide access to the first-floor rooms. Several original 19th-century four-panelled doors remain, one of which incorporates 20th-century coloured glass. The house has undergone internal reordering, including extending one of the ground-floor reception rooms into part of the adjacent extension and moving an internal partition on the first floor to create a larger bedroom and bathroom. The kitchen fireplace has a 20th-century surround, while the 20th-century extension has a modern granite fireplace. The roof structure is supported by A-frame trusses with paired principal rafters, purlins, and high collars and retains many of its original common rafters.