Dales Farmhouse

Dales Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 18th century to early 19th century, accompanied by garden walls at the front. The building features shale rubble walls with dressed granite sills and lintels, a scantle slate roof, brick chimneys at the gable ends, and cast iron ogee gutters. The layout consists of two rooms, with a kitchen/living room on the left and a narrower, shallower parlour on the right, which has a shallow pantry behind it. The staircase is located against the rear wall of the kitchen, and there is a back kitchen dairy in a likely later outshut behind the main structure. The kitchen has a large hearth, the parlour has a smaller hearth, and there is a further blocked hearth in the dairy.

The farmhouse is two storeys tall and has a symmetrical three-window east front with a central doorway featuring a top-glazed ledged door. It retains original 12-pane, 2-light horizontal sliding sash windows. There is an additional original window in the right-hand gable end pantry, which is a 2-light window with horizontal wooden glazing bars and random width leaded panes. The interior remains largely complete and unaltered since the 19th century, showcasing original four-panel and two-panel doors with old hinges and fittings, including cupboard doors beside the parlour hearth and to the right of the kitchen hearth.

The painted rubble garden wall has round coping and terminates at a central gateway with round-headed dressed granite gate-piers. Dales Farmhouse is the most complete example of a group of four farmhouses in this hamlet and is particularly notable for its original windows, including the leaded window, which is one of several surviving examples in the Lizard area.