Beneathwood Farmhouse

Beneathwood Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in the late 16th to early 17th century, with significant later alterations. It stands in Linkinhorne and is constructed of slatestone rubble with granite dressings. The roof is covered with slate, featuring ridge tiles (one hand-made crested ridge tile survives) and gable ends. There are gable end stacks to the left with brick shafts, rear lateral hall stacks, and rear lateral stacks to the inner room. The lower end is covered with corrugated asbestos roof.

The original house followed a 3-room and through-passage plan. The unheated lower end room lies to the right with a stair tower to the rear. The hall on the left was heated by a rear lateral stack, and the inner room was also heated by a rear lateral stack. An axial stack heats the first-floor chamber over the passage and hall. The inner room appears to have been rebuilt and was probably a 17th-century addition; the original house would have consisted only of the hall and the lower end.

In the mid-19th century, a 2-room addition was made to the upper end. The room to the left is heated by a gable end stack and the room to the right by a rear lateral stack. A straight joint marks the division between the two builds.

The early house is 2 storeys, presenting an asymmetrical 3-window range with the roof level lower over the lower end room. The ground floor has two 3-light chamfered granite casements with hood mould serving the hall and inner room. A 4-centred arched chamfered and step-stopped granite doorway leads to the passage with a plain door. At first floor are 2 similar 3-light chamfered granite casements, some retaining 19th-century 3-pane lights. A 20th-century window sits above the passage doorway. The lower end has a 3-light chamfered granite casement at ground floor and a 19th-century 2-light casement with L hinges at first floor. To the left of the straight joint, the 19th-century addition features two 2-light casements at ground and first floor levels, with a central 20th-century porch with pitched roof. The right gable end has a single-storey rubble lean-to and a casement at first floor. The left end has a 19th-century external stack.

At the rear, the lower end room has a 2-light 18th-century casement with H hinges and timber lintel, with a 20th-century flue. The stair tower with pitched roof projects to the rear of the lower end and has a 4-pane 20th-century light. The rear passage door is enclosed by a small 20th-century single-storey lean-to. Inside, a doorway similar to the front entrance features a 4-centred arch that is chamfered, with a studded door with strap hinges of 17th-century type and a blocked window above with timber lintel. Two rear lateral stacks stand behind the hall, both external with a straight joint between them. At first floor, the inner room has a 19th-century 16-pane sash. A straight joint marks the 19th-century addition, which has a 16-pane sash at first floor and an external rear lateral stack to the adjoining room. A small pointed arched stair light with brick surround is also present.

The interior hall contains a rear lateral fireplace in granite with a flat chamfered lintel and jambs. Five deep chamfered cross beams with step stops span the hall. The wall facing the passage is a stud partition with a double-thickness plank studded door, relocated from the doorway into the lower end. The lower end room has a round-arched chamfered doorframe with a studded door with strap hinges. The rear stair tower contains a rebuilt 20th-century stair. At first floor, a blocked doorway would have connected the hall chamber to the chamber over the inner room before the inner room was replaced by the 19th-century addition. The roof over the hall retains one truss at the partition, featuring a cambered and chamfered collar, threaded purlins, and a ridge purlin. Halvings for dovetailed lap joints are evident, though the collars are missing.