Lantyan Farmhouse

Lantyan Farmhouse is a late 18th-century farmhouse with a rear addition built in the mid-19th century and subsequent alterations. It is constructed of slatestone rubble with granite quoins and brick dressings, featuring a concrete tiled roof with gable ends and brick gable stacks. A slurried slate roof covers the rear left wing’s inner slope and a 19th-century lean-to. The original plan was a double-depth layout, with two main rooms at the front, the central front door leading directly into the room on the left. Rear service rooms include a kitchen to the right, heated by an external stack, and a stair tower with a rear lateral corridor connecting the service rooms. A single-room addition was added to the rear left, along with a lean-to on the left side; the addition is unheated and the upper floor is accessed via an external staircase.

The symmetrical front facade is three storeys wide, with a central panelled and glazed door sheltered by a hipped concrete tiled hood. The ground floor features an 18th-century 12-pane sash with sidelights and a brick cambered head, and a 19th-century 20-pane sash with sidelights, likely a mid-19th-century alteration. The first floor has three 16-pane sashes in exposed boxes with flat brick arches, while the second floor has three 12-pane sashes in exposed boxes with cambered brick arches. A straight joint marks the lean-to to the left, which has a 12-pane sash with sidelights and a timber lintel on the ground floor and a larger 16-pane sash with a flat brick arch above. On the right side, the front room lacks windows; the rear kitchen has a wide external stack with a curved slate-roofed oven. The left side lean-to incorporates 20th-century 2-light casements at ground floor and a large 16-pane sash at first floor. A two-storey service wing sits to the left, with 20th-century casements and flat-roofed dormers, and a brick stack to the end. The inner side of this wing features 20th-century steps leading to an upper 20th-century door; the rear gable has a 20th-century door and a 19th-century 2-light casement at first floor. The rear of the house presents a central stair tower with a hipped roof, and two-storey rooms to the right and left under a catslide roof. The stair tower has a 20th-century window to the cellar and late 19th-century 12-pane sashes at upper ground and first floor levels, with additional 20th-century and late-19th-century sashes to the right and left. The rear also features a stable door and a 19th-century 2-light casement.

Inside, the stair tower contains a fine late 18th-century staircase with turned balusters and a moulded handrail. The fireplaces in the front two rooms are 20th-century replacements. The remainder of the house was inaccessible during a survey in 1986.