Withnoe Barton Withnoe Farmhouse

This is a farmhouse, now a house and farmhouse, dating to around 1600. A second bay was added to the front around the mid-17th century, with a further addition constructed in the mid-19th century and 20th-century alterations made subsequently. The building is constructed of rubble, rendered externally, and has a slate roof, with crestings on the left-hand range. There is a front lateral hall stack and a truncated stack to the lower gable end on the left. An asbestos slate roof covers the rear and the 19th-century addition. The original layout comprised three rooms and a passage running through. The left-hand section, originally heated by a gable end stack, was accompanied by a hall with a front lateral stack. Around the mid-17th century, a two-storey bay was added to the front of the hall, possibly accompanied by the porch to the front of the passage. A one-room, two-storey addition was added to the right end in the mid-19th century; the original inner room may have been demolished or incorporated into the passage of this addition. Stairs were inserted into the original passage in the 19th century, and were altered again, and the house was divided into two in the 20th century. The front elevation shows 20th-century windows, a porch with a pointed arched doorway and a four-centred arched unglazed light with a hipped roof, and a 19th-century door set in an earlier plain frame. A three-light window is situated to the left, and a weathered external stack with a shaped cap to the right. The hall has a six-light mullion and transom window, with a hood mould curtailed by buttresses. At first floor, there are two-light and paired two-light windows. A gable over the hall bay features a mullion and transom window. The taller, two-storey, 19th-century block to the right has a ground floor window with a hood mould, a door with an overlight, and a hipped hood to the left. Two 20th-century windows with cambered heads are positioned at first floor. The left side has a single-storey lean-to with a corrugated asbestos roof and a two-light window, and a doorway leading to the lower end room. Inside the lower end room are six irregular chamfered cross beams, a blocked fireplace, and a four-panelled fielded door to the rear. The rear of the passage has been rebuilt with a 20th-century winder stair. The passage incorporates two chamfered cross beams, one with a scroll stop, and the front door has strap hinges and a chamfered lintel. The hall has seven chamfered and scroll-stopped beams, and a 20th-century fireplace to the front lateral stack. The roof over the hall retains one early truss, with crossed principal rafters and curved feet, and a collar with a very pronounced camber.