Crossgate Farmhouse

Farmhouse. It likely dates to the 18th century, but was significantly altered in the early 19th century. The exterior is of rendered and painted stone rubble, with one section of the front left wall seemingly rebuilt in brick. The roof is of rag slate, with a gable at the left end and a half-hipped end to the front right. There is a projecting end stack with a brick shaft on the left, and a gabled projecting side lateral stack with a brick shaft on the right. The original layout is unclear; the house now has an 'L' shaped plan resulting from the early 19th-century remodelling. It features a cross passage in the angle of two ranges, with a parlour to the left (heated by an end stack) and a crosswing to the right, which projects forward and contains a kitchen on the front, heated by a side lateral stack, and a dairy to the rear. A corridor connects the cross passage on the left with a second side entrance on the right, between the kitchen and dairy. A 19th-century outshut extension forms a porch and a small back kitchen on the right-hand side. The front has a regular 2:1 window arrangement. The central entrance is within a small, gabled, open-fronted porch. There is a 19th-century 3-light casement window to the left of the porch and 19th-century 3-light and 2-light casement windows on the first floor. The 19th-century 2-light casement above the entrance has been reset in an earlier, blind opening. There are likely 19th-century 3-light casements on the ground and first floors of the crosswing on the right. Inside, the joinery and carpentry are from the 19th century. The kitchen has two fairly massive, unmoulded crossbeams. A complete dairy includes slate floors and slate shelves.