Rolster Farmhouse

Rolster Farmhouse is a farmhouse, likely dating to the 16th century, that has been used as a farm building. It is constructed of slate rubble with a corrugated iron roof featuring gabled ends. The original plan comprised three rooms and a through passage; the lower left room was likely originally a shippon (animal shelter). It includes a lateral stack on the north front of the hall, a projecting stair turret on the south rear of the high end of the hall, and an inner room stack on the gable end. A lateral stack is located on the north front of the lower end, added during a significant rebuilding of that area. The eaves were raised in the 19th century, and stairs were inserted into the hall alongside the original stairs and an inner room partition. A lean-to was added in the 19th century to the front, rear, and lower end.

The north front has a central, projecting, truncated lateral stack with a passage doorway to its left featuring a plank door and a corrugated iron canopy. A blocked window sits above the doorway, and a 19th-century three-light casement is set to the right of the stack. Smaller windows are located to the right and above, all with casements now removed. A lean-to extends from the front of the lower left end. The south rear has a roofless projecting stair turret to the left of the centre window and a passage doorway to the right of the centre with an original round-headed timber doorframe and a 19th-century plank door. A window is positioned to the left, and the lower right end has a blocked ventilation slit in the lower section of the wall, above which it has been rebuilt. A later lean-to is located in front of the right-hand end.

Inside, the passage has solid stone walls and a cross beam, chamfered on its lower side with run-out stops. The hall contains a central cross beam and a half-beam at the lower end, both chamfered with hollow step stops and run-out stops. A large lateral hall fireplace features a chamfered slate lintel, with a corbelled left-hand jamb. The inner room has a cross beam and half-beam against the end wall, similarly chamfered with hollow step stops. Remains of a chamfered beam over a solid wall partition, which might have been a head beam for a screen, are visible between the hall and inner room. A blocked fireplace with a slate lintel is found in the inner room, alongside a later stud partition. A large doorway has been inserted into the high end gable. A lateral fireplace with a rough timber lintel is located in the north wall of the lower end room, which lacks a floor.