Oldridge

This is a farmhouse, originally dating from the mid to late 16th century, and extended in the 18th century. It was later divided into two cottages but has now returned to single occupancy. The farmhouse is constructed of roughcast rendered stone rubble and cob, with a thatched roof featuring gable ends. A brick shaft rises from a stone rubble stack with a bread oven projection on the left gable end of the original range. Further diagonally-set brick shafts are present on the rear angles at each end of the 18th-century wing.

The original farmhouse consisted of a single room with a winder staircase beside the stack at the left gable end. The smoke-blackened roof structure reveals it was initially open to the roof, with a floor likely inserted later, possibly in the 18th century. A straight joint on the rear wall suggests a rebuild of the right gable end wall, potentially indicating the house initially extended further in that direction. However, the thickness of the gable end wall suggests any demolition occurred early, leaving the possibility of the house having been an open hall house of a single-room plan, an unusual feature.

In the 18th century, a two-room wing was added to the front left end of the original range, creating an L-shaped plan. This wing originally contained a staircase (now removed) in the lower room, suggesting it may have been occupied separately from the earlier range. A cob and stone rubble leanto shed is attached to the left gable end, and a continuous outshut is used for potato and cider storage with only external access to the rear of the original range.

The building has two storeys and a two-window front. The windows are mostly late 19th or early 20th century. The ground floor windows include a two-light casement with six panes per light, a single-light window with nine panes, a 19th-century plank door enclosed by a slate-roofed porch, and a two-light casement with two panes per light within a 20th-century conservatory. Further two-light casements are present on each floor of the gable end, the ground floor window having six panes.

Inside, the original range has roughly chamfered axial beams and a steep timber winder staircase beside the fireplace. All fireplaces have 20th-century grates, but the original fireplaces remain concealed. Most of the 19th-century joinery is still in place. The roof of the 18th-century wing features two roughly pegged trusses with straight principals, X-shaped apexes, and waney rafters. The original range has a ridge purlin and single tier of purlins supported by gable end walls, with all roof members, including sawn rafters, battens, underside of thatch, and purlins, thoroughly smoke-blackened.