Gulmoor Farmhouse

Gulmoor Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the mid or late 17th century. It is constructed of plastered stone rubble with stone rubble stacks and chimney shafts, and it has a slate roof that was formerly thatched. The building features a three-room-and-through-passage layout, facing southeast and built across a hillside. The left room, which is the kitchen, has a large gable-end stack. The center room serves as an unheated dairy, separated from the kitchen by a passage. To the right is a parlour, also with a gable-end stack, and there is a corridor and staircase at the back.

The exterior has an irregular four-window front with 19th and 20th century casements, the most recent of which lacks glazing bars. The passage front doorway, located to the left of center, contains a 19th century plank door, and the roof is gable-ended.

Inside, much of the interior reflects 19th century modernization, but the original layout remains well-preserved. The only notable carpentry detail is found in the former kitchen, which features an oak doorframe with a chamfered surround leading from the passage, and a crossbeam with unstopped soffit chamfers. Both fireplaces are blocked, but they have external oven housings, with the largest belonging to the original kitchen. The farmer notes that the kitchen fireplace is very large, and a cupboard to the left of it likely served as a walk-in curing chamber. The roof trusses are boxed into the first-floor partitions, making the roofspace inaccessible, but the farmer believes there are probably original A-frame trusses with pegged lap-jointed collars.

This farmhouse is an interesting and well-preserved example from the 17th century, situated at a notably high location with extensive views. It is likely associated with a mid or late 17th century enclosure.