Newton Farmhouse

Newton Farmhouse is a farmhouse built around 1840. It is constructed of local slate rubble with a front and northwest side that are hung with scantle slate. The roof is hipped and originally covered with slurried slate but has been re-clad in asbestos slates. The lead roll hips have been replaced with clay ridge tiles, and the deep eaves now feature plastic gutters instead of the original moulded cast-iron gutters. There are two stacks on either side of the house, each with two rendered diagonally-set shafts.

The building has a double depth square plan, featuring two principal rooms at the front and a central entrance that leads to a stairwell at the back. The main staircase is located at the rear, with a servants' staircase to the right. Behind the right-hand room is the kitchen, while the back left contains the dairy and a back lobby with a doorway between. There is also a cellar beneath the front of the house.

The farmhouse is two storeys tall with a cellar and has a symmetrical three-window southwest front. It features original 16-pane sash windows with small horns and slate sills, although the center first-floor window is blind. The central doorway has an original six-panel door with a rectangular overlight that includes margin panes, and there is a later glazed and slate-hung porch. The slate hanging on the front extends slightly around the right-hand return, where there is a small basement window. The left-hand return has a 19th-century flush panel cellar doorway on the right and a small two-light casement window to the dairy on the left.

At the back, the fenestration is irregular, with two original 16-pane sash windows on the first floor. The ground floor features a 19th-century three-light casement window for the kitchen, a two-light casement window to the right for the dairy, and a 20th-century central doorway with two small 20th-century windows above it.

The interior of the farmhouse is intact, with the front rooms each featuring marble chimneypieces and flanking cupboards, although neither room has moulded plaster cornices. The original open well staircase has stick balusters and a moulded mahogany handrail that ramps up over turned newels. Other internal joinery, including panelled doors, remains intact.