Radfords

Radfords is a farmhouse dating back to the 17th century, significantly altered in the 19th century, with a further addition to the front. The front and side walls are rendered rubble, with exposed rubble at the rear and on the wing, except for the stair projection. The roof is covered with asbestos slate and slate, featuring gable ends. A rendered rubble stack projects from the lower right gable end, while a brick shaft serves a front lateral stack and a brick gable end stack rises from the left higher end. Originally, the house was designed with a three-room plan and a through passage, including a lateral front fireplace to the hall and a stair projection at the rear. A wing at the rear of the higher end may be original to the 17th century or a later addition.

During the 19th century, the interior was extensively remodelled; a door and passage were inserted at the higher end of the hall, leading to the rear stairs. A single-room shop front was added to the lower end, and the front door of the passage was probably blocked during this time. The front facade is asymmetrical, with a projecting right-hand section, and has two windows across the left end of the left-hand section. These windows are 12-pane sashes without horns, dating to the mid-19th century. A contemporary six-panel door sits to their right, sheltered by a dentilled cornice porch hood. The projecting right-hand section has an early 20th-century casement on the first floor to the left, and 20th-century metal frame casements at ground floor level, both appearing to be in blocked doorways. A single-light 20th-century casement is situated on the right-hand gable end at first-floor level, featuring a projecting slate dripcourse above.

At the rear, a wing projects from the right side, with stone steps leading to a first-floor door. A rectangular stair projection is situated in the angle of the wing, and a recently converted outbuilding is attached to the end of the wing. Inside the central room, originally the hall, is an unusual 17th-century fireplace with a corbelled wooden lintel, ovolo-moulded with run-out stops, supported on wooden corbels; the right-hand corbel also has an ovolo-moulded edge, while the left-hand one has been eroded. The lower room features a chamfered cross-beam with run-out stops. The ground floor room of the wing has a chamfered cross-beam with bar and step-stops, a lateral fireplace with a chamfered lintel with worn straight cut stops, and panelled shutters in the former inner room. Several 19th-century six-panel doors remain on the ground floor. The roof timbers were replaced in the 19th century with fairly insubstantial straight principals. The room added to the front of the lower room has a slate floor with a channel cut into it, reputedly from its use as a butcher's shop. The plain exterior of the house hides several interior features that reveal its early origins; the corbelled fireplace is particularly unusual and suggests the house was once of good quality.