Bosue Farmhouse

Farmhouse. Built around the late 18th and early 19th century, it was extended in the later 19th century with further 19th-century additions, and has a few 20th-century alterations. The exterior is constructed of slatestone rubble with granite and brick dressings, topped with a bitumenised scantle slate roof featuring ridge tiles and gable ends. There's a gable end stack on the left side, a rear lateral stack, and a front lateral stack on the right side, with brick shafts. The original orientation of the house has changed; the range now on the right was originally the rear and has a two-room plan with each room heated by a gable end stack, and a central stair hall. There is no access on this side. The original entrance was on the left side, with a one-room plan wing projecting to the front right. Around the early to mid-19th century, the right side became the front, with a doorway added into the room now to the front right. The original L-shaped plan was filled in with a one-room plan wing, which is unheated, and a one-room plan addition was made at the new left end, also heated and containing a pigeon loft. A later 19th-century outshut of single storey with a loft was constructed behind this addition.

The front, which is asymmetrical, has two windows. To the left is a later 19th-century lean-to wash house. To the right of the wash house is a 20th-century three-light casement on the ground floor and a 19th-century two-light 10-pane casement on the first floor. Granite quoins mark the end of the original building, which is to the right. To the right of the quoins is a 20th-century three-light casement with a timber lintel, and a later 19th-century four-panelled door with a gabled hood on wooden posts; a 19th-century 16-pane sash is above the door with granite jambs. The right side has two 19th-century 20-pane sashes and a central 19th-century 16-pane sash on the first floor. The main gable end on the left has square pigeon holes with slate perches. A 19th-century four-panelled door serves the front wash house. The outshut on the left has a plank door with a brick segmental arch at ground floor, and a plank door to the loft. The end roof to the left at the rear is hipped, and the 19th-century addition in the angle to the original L-plan also has a hipped roof and features two-light eight-pane casements on both ground and first floors, with brick segmental arches on the ground floor. To the right is the outshut with a 19th-century 16-pane sash with a segmental brick arch. The interior was not inspected, but may retain good features from the early 19th century.