Newlands Farmhouse

Newlands Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely has a core dating from the 16th century but was completely remodeled in the mid to late 17th century, with some alterations made in the 20th century. The building is constructed of painted rendered stone rubble and cob, topped with an asbestos slate roof featuring gable ends. There is a rendered rear lateral hall stack with offsets and a brick shaft leading to a stone rubble stack at the right gable end.

The original layout was a three-room and through-passage plan, with the lower end located to the left. The front and rear through-passage doorways have been blocked, and windows have been inserted. The lower end has been truncated to create a dairy, but the original foundation walls and door openings remain, with new doorways likely added in the 19th century leading directly into the hall and into the passage created from the lower end of the parlour. A stair turret is located at the rear of the hall, and a largely demolished former kitchen wing from the 18th or 19th century is situated at the front of the lower end.

The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a five-window range, all featuring 20th-century three-light mullions. On the ground floor, there is an early 20th-century four-light hall window to the right of a 19th-century stone rubble porch, which has a pantiled gabled roof, a semi-circular arched doorway, and a four-panelled inner door with glazed upper panels. There is also a 19th-century six-panelled door with the upper three panels glazed towards the right end.

Inside, the hall features a cambered chamfered timber fireplace lintel and a creamery niche to the right. A 19th-century wall bench is present on the front wall, and there is probably an 18th-century staircase with wide timber treads leading to the stair turret at the rear of the hall. The parlour has a boxed-in ceiling beam, and the 19th-century ledged plank doors are mostly intact. The roof structure from the 17th century remains beneath a 20th-century one, consisting of pegged trusses with straight principals, halved collars, and trenched purlins, showing no signs of smoke-blackening. In the stair turret, there is a small timber mullion window with trefoil-headed lights, where the mullions appear to have been cut out and possibly reset, indicating that the core of the house may be older than most of the surviving features suggest.