Town Farmhouse

Town Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with likely earlier origins, and has undergone alterations in the 19th century. The roof pitch was widened, and the bay to the right of the door was rebuilt in the early 19th century. The exterior features colourwashed render over coursed slatestone render, with a 20th-century concrete tile roof that is hipped to the right and has a half hip to the left. There is a late 19th-century brick ridge stack to the right, a stone right end stack finished in late 18th or early 19th-century brick, and a gable end stack to the rear left made of rendered stone finished in 20th-century brick. A rear lateral stack, serving the central hall, is also of rendered stone finished in 20th-century brick. The building has an L-plan layout with a stair turret set in the angle of the cross wing to the left. The main range has a three-unit plan with a cross passage to the right of the central hall. It is two storeys high and has a four-window range.

A canted 20th-century hood covers a mid-19th-century six-panelled door, which has two glazed panels. There are flat rendered arches over early 19th-century twelve-pane sashes above 16-pane sashes, and two blind windows to the right. The 17th-century stair turret features an early 19th-century horizontal sliding sash to the left. A 19th-century glazing-bar casement is set in a heavy pegged frame in the right gable end. The rear includes a 19th-century outshut and a 20th-century porch. The cross wing, which projects to the front left, has flat rendered arches over two late 19th-century horned plate-glass sashes.

Inside, there is an early to mid-19th-century dog-leg staircase with a landing in the cross passage. The room to the left, known as the central firmer hall, features 17th-century chamfered beams, a bressummer over an open fireplace, and a 17th-century doorway with an ovolo-moulded architrave leading to the mid-19th-century dog-leg stairs with winders in the stair turret. The front room of the cross wing has a 19th-century plank door, 17th-century chamfered beams, and a stop-chamfered bressummer over an open fireplace. The roof has not been inspected, but principal rafters for A-frame trusses have been noted. The position of the beams in the central hall suggests that the current 17th-century ceiling was inserted into what was once an open hall.