Newhouse Farmhouse

Newhouse Farmhouse is a farmhouse that was formerly the farm for St Thomas Priory, dating from around 1800 but built on a much older site. The building is constructed from slatestone rubble, except for the ground floor of the front which is rendered, and the first floor of the front and left-hand end which is slate-hung, simulating a slate roof. The right side features a hipped rag slate roof, with brick end stacks and a large rubble external rear lateral stack. The farmhouse has a double-depth plan that includes a rear outshut with a pantry and kitchen, as well as a later well-house and dairy on the right.

It stands two storeys high with a symmetrical three-window front. The first floor has 20th-century two-light casements, while the ground floor features possibly original or early 19th-century three-light casements, including two original casements with thin glazing bars on the left-hand window. The entrance has a six-panel door with later glazed top panels and flush-beaded bottom panels. The rear of the house has old casements under oak lintels, including a notable 18th-century three-light wooden mullioned window on the ground floor right with leaded glazing. The large chimney has a circular oven projection.

Inside, there are original or early 19th-century features, including two large fireplaces with bread ovens, a slightly smaller fireplace in the parlour, a dog-leg stair with stick balusters and a chamfered newel, two-panel doors, and two simple wooden chimney-pieces with late 19th-century iron grates. The pegged roof structure includes tie beams and collars, as well as a pulley wheel for a former bell in the roof space. Historically, the parish boundary used to pass through the farmhouse, and during boundary rituals, it was said that people were expected to pass through the central light of the mentioned mullioned window. The former bell was used to gather workers on the farm.