Halvose Farmhouse

Halvose Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in the 18th century, with extensions added in the early and late 19th century. The south front features painted rubble walls from the 18th century, while the north front is finished in stucco from the 19th century. The building has granite sills and wooden lintels, with roofs made of scantle slate and asbestos slate, including a central valley and a hipped returned roof on the west side, along with gable ends on the right. Many of the ridge tiles are reused clay tiles from the 18th century or earlier. There are brick chimneys on the original left and right gable ends, as well as a lateral brick chimney on the north side wall of the later 19th-century section.

The farmhouse has a double depth plan, consisting of the original south-facing 18th-century two-room house and an early 19th-century two-room front added behind it, creating a layout of two two-room houses back to back with a passage between. Additional rooms were added at each end in the early to mid-19th century, along with a single-storey wing added at right angles to the left of the south front in the late 19th century. The building is two storeys high and has an overall four-window south front that overlooks a cobbled courtyard, with a one-window 19th-century extension on the left and a nearly symmetrical 18th-century front on the right, featuring a projecting gable end of the single-storey wing in between.

The first floor has three 12-pane horned sash windows and one hornless sash window on the right, with 20th-century windows on the left and right of the doorway, which has a 20th-century ledged door. There are two tiers of blocked pigeon holes at the first-floor sill and sash meeting rail level. The north front is symmetrical with three windows from the early 19th century, plus a later 19th-century side wall of the addition on the right, which is slightly recessed. The building has a plinth and rusticated stucco quoins. A porch with pilaster antae and a simple entablature features columns that were replaced in the 20th century with rustic posts over stone bases. The original windows include 16-pane hornless sashes, except for a horned copy on the ground floor left. The interior has been partly inspected and shows evidence of successive generations of remodelling, but the essential structure remains intact, including a large fireplace with an oven in the east room of the 18th-century part.