Dearswell Farmhouse Including Front Garden Area Wall To South

Dearswell Farmhouse, dating from the early 19th century, is a farmhouse constructed from rendered stone rubble, with the front hung with rag slates. It features an asbestos slate hipped roof topped with red clay ridge tiles, and has rendered red brick stacks on the sides and a truncated lateral stack at the back. The building has a double depth, almost square plan, with two principal front rooms heated by side stacks. An entrance hall in the center contains the staircase. At the back, the kitchen is located to the left with a rear lateral stack, a small dairy in the center, and a cider cellar to the right with a loft above. The cellar has an external doorway on the right side, while the loft has an external doorway at the back and is an integral part of the house, occupying the first floor of the rear right-hand corner. The kitchen has a side doorway leading to a later 19th-century single-storey outshut on the left side of the house.

The exterior is two storeys high with a symmetrical three-window south front. It features small 19th-century three-light casements with glazing bars, and a two-light casement in the center of the first floor. The centered doorway has a 20th-century glazed door and a 20th-century glazed porch. There is a large single-storey outshut on the left-hand (west) side, while the right-hand (east) side has a 19th-century plank door to the cellar with a 19th-century fixed-light window to the left above. The rear elevation includes various 19th-century casements, a truncated stack to the right, and a blocked loft doorway to the left.

The property also includes a front wall that encloses a small garden area, which has a bowed front and is made of 19th-century slate rubble with rustic quartz capping and a central gateway. The interior has seen little alteration and retains most of its original simple joinery, including panelled doors and a staircase with stuck balusters, a column newel, and a moulded handrail. However, the original chimneypieces in the two front rooms have been removed.