The Hawthorns

The Hawthorns is an early 18th-century farmhouse, with subsequent alterations and additions from the early 19th century and later. The farmhouse is constructed of slatestone rubble with brick dressings, and has a slurried scantle slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends. Gable end stacks are present, one in rubble and the other with a rendered shaft. A later brick-shafted stack is associated with the addition to the right.

The original plan was a two-room layout, with a larger room to the left and a smaller parlour to the right, each originally heated by a gable end stack. There may have originally been a central passage. Around the mid-18th century, an unheated dairy with an apple loft above, and a winder stair, was added to the rear left. An early 19th-century addition was built at the right end and to the rear right, also incorporating an apple loft. A 20th-century addition extends to the rear left and right.

The two-storey, symmetrical front has a three-window arrangement, with early 19th-century 16-pane sash windows. Central double doors lead to an internal porch and a later half-glazed door. The ground floor window openings have segmental brick arches. A single-storey, rendered addition is located to the right, with two 20th-century windows. The left side has a buttress and a smaller 20th-century single-storey addition. The right side features a 20th-century addition with a door and window. The rear elevation showcases a continuous roof covering the main range and outshut, along with three 20th-century windows.

Inside, the front room to the left contains a fireplace with a roughly hewn chamfered timber lintel and remnants of a cloam oven. Remaining fragments of roughly hewn beams are present, with the rest dating to the early 19th century. A step leads up to the room to the right. A winder stair with stick balusters provides access to the upper floors. The first floor contains three rooms divided by wooden panelled partitions, with two-panelled fielded doors. The roof space is not accessible.