West Rowley Farmhouse

West Rowley Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid 17th century, possibly with earlier origins, and has undergone alterations in the 18th and 19th centuries, including internal refitting. The building features a rubble core with roughcast and whitewash on the front, and has a slate roof that is half-hipped to the left and gabled to the right, topped by a very large central rubble stack.

The layout includes a lobby entrance that faces the central stack, which has back-to-back fireplaces serving a kitchen on the left and a hall on the right. Beyond the hall, there is an inner room at the higher end. The farmhouse has a two-storey porch over the principal door opening, with an additional door opening to the right that leads directly into the inner room, likely a 19th-century alteration.

The exterior is two storeys high with a symmetrical arrangement of windows. The first floor has a 1:1:1:1 window pattern, with the first and third sets featuring 5-light wooden-mullioned casements with iron moveable lights, and the first-floor windows have stopped labels. There is a 19th-century 2-light casement on the extreme right of the first floor, below a single-light casement. The door opening to the second bay from the left features a two-storeyed porch with a plain outer doorway on the ground floor and an inner doorway with a plank door. On the first floor of the porch, there is an 18th-century 3-light casement with a centre moveable iron light and small panes, while the outer lights have been altered with larger panes. Below this window is a stone sundial dated 1708. A further door opening is located on the extreme right of the front, which also has a plank door. The rear elevation has not been inspected.

Inside, the farmhouse retains elements from the 17th and 18th centuries. The hall features chamfered and stopped ceiling beams, and there is panelling at the higher end with an attached hall bench. The 18th-century joinery includes two fireplaces with bolection-moulded surrounds, and there is a 17th-century staircase. The roof structure was not inspected.