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This is a house, originally a farmhouse, likely dating to the 17th century or earlier, with extensions in the 17th and 18th centuries and alterations around the early 19th century. It is constructed of slate rubble, with the east side rendered and the south end slate-hung, and has asbestos slate hipped and gable-ended roofs. The original plan may have been a 3-room and through-passage layout, but the house has been truncated at the high end. A 17th or 18th-century wing to the rear, with a gable-end stack, was subsequently added, creating an overall L-shaped plan.

The main front incorporates the lower end and the east side of the rear wing. The wing to the left has 3-light casement windows on each floor, with 3 lights to the ground floor and 2 to the first. An early 19th-century, moulded 6-panel door, with glazed top panels, is set beneath a slate canopy. The adjacent lower end of the original house has an early 19th-century tripartite sash window on the ground floor and a 16-pane sash window above. A 20th-century casement window is on the ground floor to the right. A tall, thin lateral stack is on the return. The return, likely the front of the original house, has a wide doorway to the former through passage, which has been partly blocked. A wide, shallow raking buttress is to the right of the doorway. A 19th-century 3-light casement with glazing bars cuts through the lintel of what may have been the original hall window and above left is another 19th-century 3-light casement with glazing bars. Lower left hand end of the front has 19th-century 3-light and 2-light casements.

Inside, a partition in the passage has been recently removed (in the 1980s) and a rear doorway has been blocked. The former hall fireplace has been blocked. The hall retains a chamfered ceiling beam with straight-cut stops and a cupboard with fielded panel doors. An early 19th-century staircase features square newels, stick balusters, and a moulded handrail. Ground floor panelled doors are of early 19th-century origin, and the first floor has some 18th-century 2-panel doors. The hall roof has two trusses with straight principals, threaded purlins, a missing threaded ridge piece, and lapped and pegged collars. The roof over the lower end has been replaced. The rear wing roof has a truss with principals and threaded purlins, one truss being cut off.