Valley Farmhouse

Valley Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, specifically dated 1648, and was remodelled in the 18th century. It is constructed from coursed lias and pennant stone rubble, topped with a clay pantile roof featuring gabled ends. The building has stone axial and gable-end stacks with later brick shafts.

The farmhouse has an L-shaped plan, consisting of a three to four-cell main range and a two-room cross-wing at the southwest end, which was raised to two storeys in the 18th century. There are later outshuts on the northeast end and a 20th-century outshut at the front.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical three-window northwest front. The gable-ended cross-wing projects on the right (southwest). The windows are late 19th-century three and four-light casements with glazing bars. There is a doorway to the right and a tablet to the left of the centre first-floor window inscribed with the date 1648 and some illegible initials. A single-storey outshut is located on the centre left of the front, with another on the left (northeast) gable end. The right (southwest) cross-wing features a blocked window in the gable end, a raised roof, and a two-storey three-window front facing the road with late 19th-century casements. The rear (southeast) is rendered.

Inside, the left (northeast) room has two chamfered cross-beams with hollow step stops and a blocked corner fireplace. The small centre room contains two deeply chamfered cross-beams with hollow step stops and a fireplace that has been blocked by a later fireplace. The newel stairs feature a 17th-century balustrade at the head with pierced splat balusters, finials, and a heavy moulded handrail, with the balustrade extended in the 20th century. There is a chamfered doorframe to the ground floor room of the cross-wing, while the cross-wing rooms do not have visible features. The farmhouse has 18th-century panelled and plank doors, and both the main range and cross-wing have staggered tenoned-purlin roofs with diagonal ridgepieces.