Strickenston Farmhouse

Strickenston Farmhouse is a granite farmhouse dating from around the mid-17th century, enlarged and altered in the early 18th century (around 1700), with further changes in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building materials reflect its construction phases: the original structure is built in random rubble granite with granite dressings, the early 18th-century addition uses coursed and roughly squared rubble to the front with random rubble to the rear and gable end, and later work incorporates rendered sections, brick, and cob. The roofing comprises asbestos slate with gable ends, hipped where the two wings meet, and brick gable-end stacks to each wing.

The original plan comprised three rooms arranged with two rooms to the right of a passage and one to the left, likely originally featuring a cross passage. The hall was heated by a rear lateral stack with a stair tower to its right, the end room to the right had its own gable-end stack and entry, and the unheated dairy occupied the left side of the passage. Around 1700, a two-storey front wing of two rooms was added before the passage with a new entrance to the front right. Concurrently, a lean-to was constructed around the stair tower to the rear and at the right gable end of the original house. A later lean-to was added to the rear of the addition, and the stair in the addition may be slightly later. Repairs to the end wall above the dairy were made in cob and brick. The plan now forms an overlapping T-shape with the early range to the right and wing to the left.

The early range is two storeys, with two 16-pane sashes at ground floor with chamfered granite lintels and 20th-century 6-pane and 8-pane lights under eaves. The gable end has a stepped stack and single-storey rubble lean-to with a 20th-century 2-light casement to the side in a former door opening, fitted with roughly hewn granite lintel. The wing features a 20th-century French window and 2-light casement at first floor, a panelled door to the right with overlight and slate hood, and a 2-light casement above. Its gable end is in random rubble. At the rear of the original main range, 20th-century lights appear at ground and first floor of the end room. Behind the hall stands the stair tower with pitched roof and single-storey lean-to attached, featuring large granite quoins. An external stack to the right has a curved oven at its base. A 4-pane sash at ground floor and 20th-century light above are positioned to the right. The rear of the dairy has a 9-pane light with timber lintel at ground floor and 6-pane light under eaves. The end of the original wing displays large granite quoins; the upper part of the wall above the dairy was rebuilt in cob and brick, the end wall is rendered at upper level with a 20th-century casement at ground floor, and the roof is hipped. The rear of the addition is concealed by a single-storey lean-to running the full length with a 2-light casement to rear and side, fitted with timber lintel.

Internally, the gable end wall of the early range contains a 4-centred arched granite doorway, possibly re-set when the front passage doorway was closed by the addition. The addition has one room at its outer end and a straight stair, divided left and right at the top, with an early 18th-century 2-panelled door leading to the end room at first floor. The roof over the early range has straight principals crossed at the apices and pegged; the roof over the addition is of earlier date, with steep principals resting on the wall tops and dating to the early 18th century. The stair tower contains a wooden newel stair.