East Rowley Farmhouse

East Rowley Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the mid to late 17th century, with extensions and alterations made in the 19th century. The building is constructed of rubble, roughcast, and colourwashed on the front, topped with an asbestos-slated roof divided into two sections and featuring three axial stacks with tall brick shafts.

The layout consists of three rooms, with a wing added behind the left end of the central room. The left end room, which includes an entrance passage, is a 19th-century addition; the rest of the structure is part of the original 17th-century house. The plan is particularly interesting, featuring a large kitchen on the right heated by a substantial gable end fireplace, a central entrance lobby with a staircase against the back wall, and a hall/parlour on the left end, also heated by a gable end fireplace. Behind the hall is an unheated dairy wing. The hall does not extend the full depth of the main range, and the large integral dairy may have originally projected into the main range. It is possible that the axial passage behind the hall is a 19th-century alteration to allow access to the 19th-century parlour extension at the left end, along with its entrance passage. During the 19th century, the original entrance lobby was likely reduced to enlarge the hall, and the front door was later blocked. There is also a 19th-century outshut behind the kitchen at the angle of the dairy wing.

Inside, the kitchen features a gable end fireplace with an unchamfered cambered wooden lintel and a bread oven with clay lining. The dairy includes a rough-chamfered crossbeam, while the hall has a chamfered crossbeam without stops and a fireplace with a cambered chamfered lintel.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical six-window front, featuring two and three-light casements with horizontal glazing bars, most of which were replaced in the 20th century. There is a blocked door opening in the centre with a cambered head, where a casement has been inserted, and steps remain. To the left is another door opening with a six-panelled door, the top two panels of which are glazed. To the extreme right, there is a half-glazed door with a 20th-century lean-to porch. The roof was replaced in the 19th century, although one 17th-century tie-beam truss remains.