Dadlands Farmhouse

Dadlands Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the mid-17th century, though it was largely rebuilt around 1840, with a minor addition in the late 20th century. The exterior is rendered, likely over a stone rubble and cob base, and has a hipped roof covered in asbestos slate. Rendered brick stacks flank the ends of the building.

The original plan consisted of a two-room central entrance layout facing east, with a central entrance/staircase hall and integral end stacks. Wings project at right angles to the rear; the left wing was originally the kitchen, with an external end stack, while the right wing served as a dairy. A porch has been added to the front. A late 20th-century infill now sits between the rear wings.

From the symmetrical front facade, C19 three-light wooden casement windows are found in the end bays. The central first floor has a smaller C19 two-light wooden casement with small panes. The central doorway has a late 19th-century half-glazed door with three lower panels and three tall glazed upper panels, sheltered by a gabled porch with a segmental-arched entrance and wooden side benches.

The left-hand return front features C19 three-light wooden casements to the upper floor and a roughly central first-floor two-light wooden casement. The right-hand return has a first-floor C19 two-light window and a ground-floor wooden casement; the latter formerly had internal boarded wooden shutters. A roughly central doorway is also present on this side, along with a raking buttress to the side wall.

Inside, the stone-flagged entrance/staircase hall has a C19 matchboarded dado. The staircase, dating from around 1840, has an open string and stick balusters (two per tread). It originally featured a door at the foot of the stairs and a cupboard door to the right, both of which have been removed. The left- and right-hand ground-floor front rooms retain C17 chamfered cross beams with run-out stops. The left-hand room has a fireplace dating to around 1840 with stone jambs and a reused C17 deep-chamfered wooden lintel with runout stops, along with a window seat to the front window. A C19 boarded door separates the entrance hall from the left-hand room. The right-hand ground-floor room has a stone-flagged floor, a bench along the front and side walls (shortened along the front wall), a large open fireplace with stone jambs, a C17 cambered chamfered wooden lintel with runout stops, and two clom ovens. The former kitchen in the left-hand rear wing has an open fireplace with a wooden lintel and a wooden settle. The former dairy in the right-hand rear wing retains low slate shelves, some of which have been rebuilt.

The farmhouse is part of an early 19th-century planned farmstead which includes buildings such as a barn, stable, granary and cartshed.