Brownston

This is a farmhouse, likely dating back to the 16th century, with significant alterations and extensions from the late 17th and 18th centuries. It is constructed of rendered stone rubble, with a slurried slate roof featuring gabled ends, heightened eaves, and early crested ridge tiles over the rear wing. Rendered stacks are situated at the gable ends. The original layout was probably a three-room plan with a passage running across, but this has been altered over time to an end-stack plan. Later partitions have created rooms at each end, with a central entrance passage running across the front of the building, a room behind it, and a staircase to the left side. A 17th-century kitchen wing is located at the rear of the left-hand end, featuring a gable stack with set-offs. The main façade is two storeys high with a four-window range, featuring 19th and 20th-century casement windows with glazing bars. The upper floor windows have fixed top lights. A circa early 19th-century panelled door is situated to the right of centre, sheltered by a 20th-century timber porch. Inside, the left-hand (south) room displays two chamfered ceiling beams with ogee on step stops, alongside a plain, unstepped chamfered beam at the centre. Some later 18th or early 19th-century panelled doors are also present. The roof structure includes three rear blades of trusses in the higher left-hand end, which show morticed apices, lap-jointed far collars, and morticed far two tiers of threaded purlins; only the upper purlins remain, with the lower purlins, collars, ridge piece and front blade of trusses being missing. The remaining roof sections were replaced in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.