Lye Hole Farmhouse

Lye Hole Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. It was originally built with a three-room cross-passage plan, featuring a passage behind a central stack and staircase. A later wing was added at right angles to the west end, and a lower, hipped-roof block was set into the internal angle, likely in the late 18th century. The farmhouse is constructed of rubble, with some roughly coursed stone on the west front and squared and coursed stone to a lower inserted wing to the south. It has pantile roofs and coped gables. The front is two storeys high and has an irregular arrangement of windows. The ground floor features a four- and five-light 19th-century wooden casement, two two-light casements on the top floor to the left, and one two-light casement at a lower level to the right. A blocked stair window is located above and to the left of a plank entrance door, which is accessed by two stone steps. A plank access opening to the attic is visible on the left return, built flush to the original gable wall. The return to the right has a plain gable, followed by two two-light casements at ground level with a segmental head, and one at first floor with a straight arch. A small single light and a two-light are located in a blocked former door opening. The masonry at the right end is rough. The back of the house has an inset block with a wide plank door opposite the passage, two small two-light openings to the ground floor, and two two-light small-paned casements to the first floor. Three stone stacks are present on the front range, with the central stack located where there's a break in the roof slope on the south side. One brick and one stone stack are located on the west wing. The interior retains a winder stair leading to the attic, a spine beam with deep stopped chamfer carried to a transverse boxed beam in the left-hand room, a stone-flagged cross passage, and a wide fire opening in the right-hand room, now fitted with a wooden surround and hood. Heavy roof principals, formerly to a diagonal ridge, and with chamfered through purlins are also present, though many rafters have been replaced.