Cuckoo Farmhouse

Cuckoo Farmhouse is a farmhouse that was later used as a public house. It dates from the mid to late 17th century and has some minor alterations from the late 19th century. The building is rendered over stone rubble and cob, topped with a gable-ended Welsh-slate roof. It features axial and end stacks with short rendered shafts.

The layout consists of a three-room baffle-entry plan, with an axial stack situated between two right-hand rooms and an integral end stack for the left-hand room. There is a rectangular stair projection at the rear of the right-hand stack, likely from the 17th century. At the back, there are probably 19th-century single-storey lean-to additions flanking the stair projection, with the section behind the left-hand end likely raised in the 20th century. The farmhouse is two storeys high, with lean-to outshuts at the rear that are one and two storeys tall.

The exterior has an asymmetrical three-window front, featuring late 19th-century two and three-light wooden casements. There is a 19th-century boarded door with a beaded frame located between the first and second windows from the left. A gabled stone porch with a stone lintel and wooden side benches can be found inside.

Inside, the central ground-floor room has a plain cross beam and half beams, along with an open stone fireplace that has a plain wooden lintel and a bread oven with a 19th-century cast-iron door. There is evidence of a former bench on the left-hand wall and the front wall. A probable stud wall separates the central room from the left-hand ground-floor room, which features a two-panelled door dating to around 1700, a rough cross beam, a rebuilt fireplace with a wooden lintel, and a segmental-arched recess to the left, along with a window seat. The right-hand ground-floor room, which serves as the kitchen, has a blocked old fireplace. There are old boarded doors to the left and right of the entrance lobby, as well as old boarded doors leading to the first-floor rooms. The late 17th-century roof is supported by seven principal-rafter trusses.