Charity Farmhouse

Charity Farmhouse is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, dating from around the 16th century and remodeled in the late 17th or early 18th century. It is constructed of stone rubble and features thatched and asbestos tile roofs with gabled ends, along with stone rubble gable end stacks.

The house has a three-room plan, with the southwest room serving as the kitchen, which includes a large gable end fireplace. The left end room, also with a gable fireplace, was the parlour. The central hall was converted in the late 17th or early 18th century into an unheated service room, featuring an axial passage that connects the kitchen and parlour, a front doorway into the passage, and a winder staircase leading from it. During the same period, the house was raised to two storeys and an attic, with a later single-storey extension added at the southwest end.

The exterior is two storeys and an attic high, with an asymmetrical five-window northwest front. It has 20th-century two and three-light casements and three eyebrow dormers in the thatched roof on the left. There are two doorways with 20th-century thatched open porches, and a single-storey stone range on the right with a rounded corner and a thatched hipped roof. The rear features 20th-century casements.

Inside, the parlour on the left has a deeply chamfered cross-beam with large step-stops, a chamfered half-beam, and renewed joists, along with a large brick fireplace that has a moulded bressummer and rebuilt brick jambs. The kitchen on the right contains a very large fireplace with a low-level hollow-chamfered bressummer that has mortices for joists and a curved head, as well as mortices for the stair doorway. The small unheated central room behind the axial passage features a deeply chamfered half-beam and boarded partitions, with a winder staircase boxed in the corner. The chambers above have boarded partitions and doors. The roof, dating from the late 17th or early 18th century, has a four-bay staggered tenoned-purlin construction with halved and lapped collars.