Preston Farmhouse

Preston Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates back to the 17th century or earlier and has been significantly rebuilt and extended during the 18th and 19th centuries. It features slate stone rubble walls that incorporate some cob, and a slate roof adorned with Victorian crested ridge tiles. The roof is hipped at the left end, gabled to the right, and half-hipped on the rear wing.

The farmhouse has a large projecting rubble stack at the front, built in decreasing courses with a small brick shaft. There is also a small brick stack immediately to the left, a rendered brick stack at the right gable end, and a projecting stone stack with a brick shaft lateral to the rear wing. The original plan likely consisted of a three-room-and-through-passage layout, with the lower end to the left featuring a front lateral fireplace. The higher end has been partly rebuilt and includes a central projection, probably added in the mid-19th century, along with a wing added to the rear in the 18th century.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical four-window front, featuring late 19th or early 20th century two-light casements. The central two-window section of the house projects outward. To the left of this section is a 19th-century plank door, and the stack projects to the left of that with an inserted doorway beyond. There are signs of substantial rebuilding on the front wall, indicated by a visible joint in the central projection and the more modern character of the stonework in between.

The interior was inaccessible at the time of the survey, and according to the owner, it does not exhibit any early features, although these may have been concealed by 19th-century modernisation.