Newhouse

Newhouse is a farmhouse now unoccupied as of January 1985. It dates to the 17th century but underwent refenestration and some rebuilding in the 19th century. The building is constructed of stone rubble and cob with slate roofs topped with clay ridge tiles. The roofline varies across the ranges: gable ends to the west range, hipped to the south range, and double Roman tiles to the east range.

The building follows a complex plan. The range to the south forms a 3-cell through-passage, though the inner room at the right end is partially demolished and now covered by a lean-to roof. Two long right-angled wings have been added to create a 17th-century 3-sided rear courtyard arrangement. In the early 19th century, the west facade was given emphasis through the insertion of a central doorway, rebuilding at the left end, and refenestration throughout. Part of the rear right-hand wing was converted to an outbuilding and a stack on the inner face was removed.

The building rises to 2 storeys. Tall rubble stacks with tapered caps and drips stand to the rear of the original hall in the south range and to the ridge of the left side rear wing, the latter heightened with a brick shaft. A rebuilt brick stack stands on the exposed front gable end of the rear right-hand wing.

The south side displays a 3-window range comprising one 3-light and two 2-light 19th-century casements, each with 2 panes per light. A rubble outshut with slated lean-to roof adjoins the left of the through-passage doorway. The doorway retains a 17th-century straight-headed ovolo-and-hollow chamfered door surround with weathered jambs and 19th-century plank doors. To its right is a 2-light window with 8 panes per light and a hoodmould.

The west facade contains a 3-window range: two 2-light casements with 2 panes per light above, twin 12-paned hornless sashes to the right, and a 4-paned sash on each floor to the left of a brick porch. The porch has a slate gabled roof with timber bargeboard and a 6-panelled inner door. Immediately to the right of the porch is a 6-paned fixed light inserted into a blocked doorway.

The east side shows a 4-light window to the left under the lean-to roof with H hinges to the opening light. A 2-light window with 6 panes per light and a small 2-light mullion window stand to the left of a wide plank door. Two tall 19th-century 2-light windows with 3 panes per light are positioned on the inner face of the rear left side wing, with a 3-light window of 2 panes per light to its gable end. An overhanging slate roof shelters the courtyard side of the rear right-hand projection. A plank door here is flanked by two window openings, that to the left retaining a 17th-century chamfered timber surround.

The interior retains the majority of its 17th-century door surrounds. The rear through-passage door features an old plank door, and the hall entrance from the through-passage has doors to each end of the ground floor corridor in the left-hand wing. Three further door surrounds access the chambers above on this side, two of them paired. All retain original plank doors with moulded cover strips. All door surrounds are straight-headed with ovolo-and-hollow chamfered profiles and ornate bulbous carved stops to the jambs, except for that at the head of the stairs which has scroll stops.

The main staircase retains a 17th-century moulded handrail and heavily turned newels, though the stick balusters have been renewed. A bolection moulded timber chimney piece holds a 19th-century decorative wrought iron canopy to the grate with a tiled surround. 19th-century chimney pieces remain intact in other principal rooms. Kitchen and dairy fittings are intact, with slate shelving skirting the walls of the dairy.