Lipton Farmhouse

Lipton Farmhouse is a circa mid-17th century farmhouse which has been extended in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of stone rubble, painted to the front and rendered at the rear and ends, with an asbestos slate roof featuring gabled ends and 20th-century crested ridge tiles. The rendered gable end stacks have tapered weathered shafts; a large stack is located on the right, heightened in rendered brick, and the left-hand stack retains old clay pots.

The original layout consisted of three rooms, with a central unheated room. The larger room on the right was the kitchen, heated by a gable end stack, and the smaller room on the left, also heated, was likely the parlour. The front doorway opens directly into a central passage, behind which is a small, unheated pantry and a straight staircase leading between the pantry and the kitchen on the right. The parlour was later partitioned to create a dairy, and this partition has recently been removed. A circa 19th-century outbuilding is attached to the right end, and a 20th-century conservatory extends from the left end.

The south-east front has an asymmetrical arrangement of four windows. The majority of the windows are 20th-century casements; the large ground floor window on the right has an ovolo moulded timber lintel with run-out stops and a slate hood mould. A 19th-century flush panel and glazed door, with a lean-to canopy on wooden cantilevers, is located to the left of the centre. The rear elevation was originally built into a bank, which has since been excavated, featuring a small first-floor window and a larger ground-floor window with a later doorway (now a window). A 20th-century outshut is located to the right and a late 20th-century conservatory is set into the south-west end. A circa 19th-century single-storey outbuilding at the north-east end has been incorporated into the house.

The kitchen room on the right has a cross-beam and half-beam at the right end, featuring ovolo mouldings and bar and hollow steps. The fireplace lintel in this room has been replaced, and in the left-hand room the fireplace has been blocked with a 20th-century grate. A straight staircase connects the central room and the kitchen. The roof structure was replaced in the 20th century, and no other original features are visible inside.