Younghouse Farmhouse

Younghouse Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates from the 17th century or possibly earlier, but it was extensively remodeled and refronted around the early 19th century. The building features rubble walls with brick dressings around some windows. It has two brick stacks at the gable ends and a projecting rubble lateral stack at the rear, topped by a gable-ended slate roof. Originally, the farmhouse had a three-room layout with a through passage and a screens passage, and it may have included an open hall, although there is no visible evidence of this apart from different types of beams in the hall. The hall contains a lateral fireplace, and the lower and inner rooms may have originally been unheated.

In the 19th century, the interior was modernized, and the passage was blocked at the rear. Two wings, likely from the 18th or 19th century, were added at either end, with the right-hand wing serving as a dairy with a storage loft above. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical but regular four-window front. The ground and first floor right-hand windows are tripartite 16-pane sashes from around the mid-19th century, while the other windows are all 16-pane early 19th century hornless sashes, except for the ground and first floor left windows, which have 12 panes. To the right of the center, there is an early 19th century six-panel door with a small rectangular fanlight above it, and a contemporary door canopy supported by carved wooden brackets, featuring one Tuscan column on the left, with the right-hand column replaced by part of a telegraph pole in the late 20th century.

Inside, early features are mostly obscured by later alterations. However, the hall has a chamfered cross beam with no visible stops. At the higher end of the hall, a richly moulded beam with bar and hollow step stops is visible at the top of the partition; this was originally the head-beam of a screen that is now covered up. According to the owner, a similar concealed screen survives at the lower end of the hall. The roof timbers at one end of the house appear to be 19th century replacements, featuring straight principals and lapped collars. Currently, the farmhouse offers little evidence of its early origins, but it seems that any evidence is merely concealed rather than destroyed.