Hallowell Farm

Hallowell Farm is a house, possibly with earlier origins, dating back to the 17th century. The construction is of lime-washed rubble walls, with a gabled slate roof featuring crested ridge tiles and an asbestos roof to a later addition on the right-hand side. A brick shaft is set into the left gable, and there are projecting rendered rubble stacks with offsets to the right-hand gable and a projecting oven at the rear. A further projecting rendered rubble lateral stack is also present.

The original plan was of a three-room-and-through-passage layout, with the higher quality end of the house located to the right. This wing was heated by a rear lateral stack, with the inner room heated by a gable-end stack. The room on the left may have originally been unheated. The interior was modified in the 18th century, and the rear door of the passage was likely blocked at this time. Barn extensions were added in the 18th and 19th centuries, one to the left and one to the right.

The front of the house has a regular, but not symmetrical, six-window facade, with a three-window extension to the right and a barn to the left. Most windows are late 20th-century aluminium framed casements. However, the first-floor window on the left is a 20th-century wooden casement with two panes, and the ground-floor window to the left of the centre is a 19th-century two-pane casement. A gabled 20th-century porch with a plank door sits to the left of the main section, and another 20th-century plank door is situated to the right of centre, sheltered by a gabled porch hood. An 18th-century barn extension is attached to the left-hand end, featuring a wide, shouldered doorway with a wooden lintel and a slit window above it. A further barn extension, probably from the 19th century, is attached to the right end and has been converted into domestic accommodation, with three regularly spaced 20th-century two-light casements with brick arches on the ground floor and slit openings on the first floor towards either end. A taller building, originally possibly a stable, is attached to the end of this wing and has been converted.

Inside, the original 17th-century front doorway remains, featuring a square-headed, ovolo-moulded wooden frame with worn bar stops. The left-hand, lower room has three chamfered cross beams with indistinct, probably hollow step stops. Two 18th-century six-panel doors survive on the ground floor. The right-hand/inner room contains a probably 18th-century corner cupboard with an arched opening and a dentilled cornice, and a simple coved plaster cornice, likely contemporary with the cupboard. Original fireplaces have been blocked. According to the owner, the roof trusses over the main house are sawn timbers, whilst those over the barn extension are pegged, probably dating back to the 18th or 19th century.