East Liddaton Farmhouse

East Liddaton Farmhouse is a building with origins in the 15th century or earlier, significantly remodelled in the 16th century, with an extension from the 17th century and additions from the 19th century. It is constructed of stone rubble, partly rendered, with a slate roof that is hipped at the ends, formerly thatched. A rendered chimney stands on the axial ridge. A rear addition dating back to the 19th century is slate-hung.

The core of the farmhouse is a medieval open hall house which was remodelled in the 16th century with the addition of a floor, a front stair turret, and a stack backing onto the cross passage. A solid high-end partition appears to be of the 16th century. In the 17th century, the inner room was extended as a parlour wing, and a first-floor window was added to the main block. Part of the lower end was dismantled, probably in the 19th century, when a rear addition created the present T-shaped plan. A salting room on the front may also date back to the 19th century. The front has one and one window. The porch to the right of the stair turret has a sloping slate roof. A probably 16th-century arched, shouldered timber doorway with hollow and roll moulding leads into the former passage. A 20th-century front door is located within a lean-to on the front. The lean-to roof covers a first-floor, 3-light, 17th-century timber mullioned window with ovolo moulding, leaded panes, and some old glass. A 20th-century casement with glazing bars is set to the first floor of the stair turret. A 19th-century casement with six panes per light sits on the right return of the lean-to. A small, reset slit lancet in a stone at the right-hand end may have been a stair light.

Inside, there is a smoke-blackened medieval truss, featuring a massive raised or possibly upper cruck with a saddle and square-set ridge, with two diagonal braces to the principals, visible below the first-floor ceiling. A 16th-century fireplace has a massive granite chamfered lintel, formerly supported on corbels with curved ends, similar to those found at Monkstone and Perry Ash; the right-hand corbel and end of the lintel were likely removed when a 19th-century stair was inserted to the right of the fireplace, with the left-hand corbel remaining intact. Slate floors are present in the hall and parlour. The hall retains a timber bench fixed to the wall opposite the fireplace, as well as two plastered-over cross beams to the ceiling. A chamfered, stop-chamfered lintel over the hall doorway may be a reused door jamb. A large semi-circular oven projecting into the former cross passage is probably from the 19th century. The farmhouse has remained remarkably unaltered since the 19th century.