Culverhill

Culverhill is a farmhouse that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with some remodeling of the rear service rooms in the late 20th century. The building is colourwashed and rendered, topped with a slate roof that has gabled ends. It features an axial stack to the left of center and a front lateral stack with a tall, tapering, snecked stone shaft, along with a bread oven that has a slate roof.

The layout is L-shaped, with a single-depth, south-facing main range that is three rooms wide. There is a lobby entrance, which may have originally been a passage entrance, located to the right of center. The hall is to the left of the entrance and is heated by the lateral stack. The inner room to the left was probably originally unheated, but a stack has been introduced on the crosswall with the hall. There is a small unheated lower end room, and a rear left wing, possibly the 17th-century dairy, that is at right angles to the inner room. The rear of the hall and lower end room has had outshuts of uncertain date added, including a stair projection.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical three-window front elevation. The shouldered lateral stack is positioned to the right of center, with a late 20th-century front door to the right of the stack. The windows are mostly two-light timber casements from the 19th or 20th century, featuring glazing bars, except for the ground floor right window, which is a late 20th-century replacement. The rear elevation of the main range has late 20th-century windows, while the wing likely has timber casements from the 19th or early 20th century.

Inside, all three rooms in the main range have chamfered stopped axial beams. The open fireplace in the hall features a chamfered step-stopped lintel. The stack in the inner room partly truncates the axial beam, indicating that it is a later addition, but there is a re-sited scroll-stopped lintel in the new fireplace. The wing also contains a chamfered crossbeam. The roof is supported by 18th-century trusses.