Ostlands Farmhouse

Ostlands Farmhouse is a farmhouse with a mid-17th century rear wing. A front, dated 1734, was added in the later 17th century, with alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The house is constructed of rubble, rendered, with a double Roman tiled roof, gable stacks, and a slate roofed addition to the right. It follows a T-plan, featuring a 19th-century front porch. The two-storey main block has two storeys and displays a 1:1:1 window arrangement. The ground floor windows are 9-pane sashes alongside a central 4-panelled and glazed door. The first floor features two 6-pane sashes and a central 9-pane sash. The left return has a ground floor 9-pane sash and a single-storey lean-to. The rear wing comprises three storeys and two windows and includes a 20th-century casement and a 3-light casement with stone, hollow-chamfered mullions, both with timber lintels. Above are two small 20th-century casements with timber lintels, and on the second floor, a 2-light casement with leaded lights under the eaves. The right return includes a ground floor 9-pane sash and a first floor 6-pane sash. The rear wing also contains varied windows, including a first-floor 2-light casement with a stone ovolo mullion and leaded lights, and a ground-floor C20 door and small casement with a stone, narrow bolection-moulded surround. A single-storey former dairy, which is attached to the rear, has 20th-century doors and windows front and rear. The rear of the house features a first-floor 3-light casement with a timber lintel. Inside, a ground floor room at the rear has a heavy, chamfered beam. A 19th-century staircase with serpentine splat balusters is situated on the first floor. A date plaque, “IIS/1754”, is found in a first floor front right room and may have been reset from elsewhere in the house. This room also includes chamfered beams with run-out stops. A first floor rear room has a door with a panel over, featuring a circular hole and cover, and chamfered, stopped beams. The room marks the site of a former stair, and thicker walls are present in the rear block. The 5-bay front roof has principal rafters, two rows of purlins, very cambered collars, and purlins sawn through for the addition of the front porch.