Churchtown Farmhouse

The building is a farmhouse, now a house, dating to approximately the late 17th and early 18th centuries, with alterations from the early 19th century and later changes. It is constructed of slatestone rubble with brick dressings, and has a slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends. There are gable end stacks with brick shafts. The original plan comprised two rooms, a larger room to the right and a smaller room to the left, connected by a cross passage. An integral outshut runs along the rear, containing a larger kitchen to the right and a smaller, unheated dairy to the left. A later 19th-century wash house is attached to the rear of the dairy, and a small 19th-century single-storey outhouse is attached at the left end, heated from a rear left stack.

The two-storey, nearly symmetrical front has three windows. All windows are 19th-century 16-pane sashes with cambered brick arches and stone keystones. A 20th-century glazed door, also with a cambered brick arch and stone keystone, is positioned off-centre to the left. The outhouse attached at the left end has a window and a door, both with cambered brick arches, and a slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends. A large external stack is present at the right end. A 19th-century 2-light 4-pane casement window, with a timber lintel, is located within the outshut’s loft, at the rear. The rear elevation is in painted stone rubble; it has a 19th-century 2-light 4-pane casement window to the left and a 19th-century 2-light 3-pane casement window to the right, both with timber lintels. The single-storey wash house forms a rear porch, and is rendered with 20th-century windows on its rear and right sides, and a 20th-century door on its left side. This conceals a plank door leading directly into the kitchen. The rear of the outhouse to the right has two plank doors and a 4-pane casement window, both with brick segmental arches.

Inside, the room on the right-hand side of the front features some 18th-century moulded beams, along with some roughly hewn beams. It has an end fireplace with a 19th-century mantel and a straight staircase inserted at the rear, with stick balusters. The outshut has a slate floor throughout, with slate shelves in the dairy. Group value stems from the building's well-preserved historic character and contribution to its setting.