Dainton Farm

Dainton Farm is a farmhouse with an adjoining cottage, likely dating from the 17th century, with alterations and a wing added in the 19th century. The farmhouse is constructed of rendered rubble walls with an asbestos slate roof, gabled at either end and hipped over the front wing. There are three rendered rubble stacks: one projecting from each gable end and cut off at the roof apex, a rear lateral stack with a brick shaft, and a brick shaft to the side of the wing.

Originally, the farmhouse had a three-room and through-passage plan, with a lower room to the left. The hall was heated by a rear lateral stack, while the lower and inner rooms were heated by gable end stacks. A newel staircase is located at the rear of the inner room. The interior was remodelled around the early 19th century, and a wing was added to the front of the lower room on the left-hand side. Probably 19th-century outshuts run along the rear wall.

The front of the farmhouse is asymmetrical, with three windows. On the first floor, the two left-hand windows are 19th-century two-light casements with glazing bars; the right-hand window is in a wooden mullion frame. A 20th-century two-light metal frame casement sits in a gabled half-dormer window. On the ground floor, there is a three-light 19th-century casement with glazing bars to the left, a similar single-light window to its right, beyond which is a 20th-century glazed door. To the right of that is a 20th-century two-light metal frame casement. A 20th-century plank door is situated on the far left, likely leading to the original passage with an early 19th-century wing projecting to its left, which has a 20th-century two-light casement on the ground floor of the front wall and first floor of the inner face of the wing. This section of the house forms a separate cottage.

The interior of the farmhouse was inspected; the right-hand, likely former inner, room features a moulded plaster ceiling with single ribs in a geometric design with fleurons at the corners, although the centre has been damaged. There is a 19th-century corner cupboard with an arched head and an adjoining wall cupboard next to the fireplace. The room above has a moulded plaster cornice that also runs either side of the collar to the roof truss, which projects down into the ceiling. Damaged decorative plasterwork above the fireplace displays a flower motif.

Original roof trusses remain, consisting of substantial straight principals with cranked collars, halved and pegged, featuring a small chamfer on their soffit. Principal rafters are morticed at the apex and have ten purlins from wall plate to ridge level, creating a ten-bay roof of open trusses. The trusses are stained dark, obscuring whether they are smoke-blackened.