Innyside Farmhouse

This is a farmhouse, likely dating to the late 16th century. It is constructed of stone rubble, with a rendered front elevation, and has a slate roof with a hipped end on the left and a gable end on the right. Stone axial and end stacks are visible.

The house originally followed a three-room and through-passage plan, with the ground sloping down to the right. The lower end, on the right, is heated by an end stack, while the hall is heated by an axial stack backing onto the passage. The inner room was originally a dairy. There’s a small projection dating from the 16th or 17th century to the rear of the hall, and a 19th-century outshut to the rear of the passage and lower end.

The asymmetrical front has five windows. A 20th-century gabled porch with a part-glazed door stands in the centre, alongside a 2-light casement window and an outshut extension. To the left of the porch are a 19th-century 3-light casement and a probable 19th-century 1-light casement, illuminating the hall. A small stone quatrefoil window, originally unglazed, is also present. On the first floor are four 19th and 20th-century 2-light casements and a 1-light casement to the right. A barn, with stone rubble construction, a corrugated asbestos roof, and 20th-century windows, is attached to the lower right-hand end. The rear elevation includes a single-story projection behind the hall, lit by a two-light mullion window.

Inside, the through passage has a later inserted staircase. The lower end features an open fireplace with an unmoulded surround. The ceilings have fairly large, wany, roughly cut, and unstopped stop-chamfered spine beams. The partition between the original dairy and hall has been removed. The axial hall stack appears to have been added later. The hall fireplace has a hollow chamfered granite surround. A small projection, lit by a two-light mullion window appears in the rear wall; while small, its position is characteristic of the area, and may have originally been a stair turret.

On the first floor, a 17th-century stop-chamfered timber lintel is above the hall fireplace, with its left-hand jamb rebuilt. A second fireplace backs onto this, heating a chamber below. The roof structure incorporates reused materials, having been raised by approximately 1.5 metres in the early 19th century. It now features an A-frame structure with lapped, pegged, and nailed apices and collars. The blades are blackened and sooty, though mortice holes for previous collars and purlins, which originally appear to have been trenched, are missing.