Ratcliffes, Including Barn Attached

Ratcliffes, including the attached barn, is a farmhouse that has been converted into a private dwelling. The barn retains fabric from the 16th century, while the house may also date from the 16th century but has undergone significant alterations in the 20th century. The structure is made of rendered stone and cob. The barn features a corrugated iron roof with a gable end, and the house has an asbestos slate roof. The house is oriented away from the road and includes a lateral rear stack with a brick chimney and a projecting stair turret at the back. It is two storeys high and has a three-window range of gabled half dormers, with 20th-century windows. The house also has three buttresses, but its interior has been completely altered.

The barn has a garage door with a largely paned window to the left. There are large double plank doors at the left end, with a loft door above. A 17th-century chamfered surround remains from a former two-light mullion window on the rear side facing the road, although the mullion has been removed. To the left of this window is a plank door, and to the right is a loft door above another two-light window. The lofted section of the barn is separated from the main area by a cob wall that rises to the apex of the roof. Above the single-storey section, there are two raised cruck trusses, with the feet of the blades resting on short timber wall plates. One truss features a side-pegged collar, while the other has a collar tenoned into soffit mortices on the blades. Both trusses have trenches for purlins and are heavily smoke-blackened on the sides facing away from the house. The blades are set low into the cob walls, suggesting they have not been reset.