Coles Farmhouse

Coles Farmhouse is a substantial house, dated 1648 and 1685, constructed of rubble stone with a stone-tiled roof, coped gables, and paired diagonal end wall stacks. The building is two and a half storeys high, with an additional attic, arranged in a roughly L-shaped plan. It possesses recessed ovolo-moulded mullion windows.

The east front features two gables; the left gable is dated "PW 1646" and the right gable bears the date "E/W/S 1685." Above the three-light windows on each gable is a single light, both with hoodmoulds. The first floor has two two-light windows to the left, also under a single hoodmould. The ground floor has a three-light window on each side of a two-light window, which replaced a former door, and is covered by a continuous stepped hoodmould. A 20th-century lean-to connects to a 20th-century projecting gabled single-storey kitchen to the right.

The south gable end is aligned with the south gable of a rear wing. A hipped dormer sits between the gables. The attic contains a blank keyed oval above a two-light window with a hood to the left gable, a three-light window with a hood and relieving arch to the left of the first floor, a two-light window with a hood to the centre, and a two-light window with a hood to the right side. On the ground floor, a four-light window with a king-mullion has a relieving arch on the left, a two-light window is centrally positioned, and is covered by linked hoodmoulds. A plank door sits within a moulded Tudor-arched surround featuring imposts, a keystone, and a hoodmould to the right. The left side has a moulded plinth stepped over two basement windows.

The west gable end displays a coped gable, a blank oval in the apex, a two-light attic window with a dripstone, a three-light first-floor window with a hood and relieving arch, and a four-light ground-floor window with a dripcourse. The north side has paired diagonal stacks, a single light and a two-light window with hoodmoulds to the first floor, similar windows below with a stepped dripcourse. To the left are three stepped stair lights with a hoodmould. The rear of the main front features a gable with a three-light attic window and hood, two first-floor windows with two lights each under a continuous hood, and a ground-floor door within a moulded doorcase with a single light to the left and a two-light window to the right, all with hoods.

The north end has an attached outbuilding with a ground-floor single light and hood to the left of stone steps leading to an upper door, flanked by small four-light pointed vent loops. Above the left vent loop is a late medieval two-light window with ogee heads to the lights. The west side has a ground-floor two-light ovolo-moulded window with a hood. To the left of the gable end is a reset Tudor-arched doorcase with a hood.

The interior contains chamfered stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, a large elliptical arched chamfered stone fireplace at the north end, and a Tudor-arched moulded fireplace with a moulded shelf at the south end. A dog-leg stair has flat balusters and acorn finial newel posts. The south-west room has a 17th-century plaster frieze of griffins flanking shields and plaster decoration to the ceiling. A fine 17th-century stone fireplace has fluting to the frieze and shield spandrels. Further Tudor-arched stone fireplaces are located upstairs. The house was owned by the Webb family from around 1633.