Outbuilding Immediately North Of And Attached To North Farm

This is a possible 16th-century house, formerly part of North Farm. It is built of roughly coursed limestone rubble, incorporating some squared and dressed blocks, with a stone slate roof. The building has a rectangular plan. A 20th-century part-glazed lean-to porch on the south side is not of special interest.

The south wall features a two-light, hollow-chamfered stone-mullioned window with four centred arched heads to each light and carved spandrels on the first floor. A straight joint indicates the former position of a first-floor door towards the west end. There is a 20th-century plank door within a Tudor-arched doorway at the centre of the ground floor. A 20th-century, artificial stone, hollow-moulded mullioned window, closely replicating the south wall style, is set within the blocking of a former west doorway. A small, rectangular, blocked window is visible to the left of the doorway. A single 16th-century light with a stone surround, carved spandrels, and an almost pointed head is situated on the first floor, with a small, less-defined light towards the apex of the gable. Two 16th-century two-light windows, similar to those on the south wall, are located at the east gable end. The first floor is now accessed from a higher ground level at the rear, via a 20th-century oak-panelled door within a 19th or 20th-century rectangular surround with a wooden lintel; a blocked two-light stone-mullioned window (matching the south wall style) is to the left of the door. The gable ends have flat coping and cross saddles.

The interior reveals three bays, possibly containing original deep-chamfered tie beams with run-out stops, supporting the first floor. A stone fireplace, now blocked, is situated towards the east end of the north wall, featuring a Tudor-arched stone surround with carved spandrels, and a small recess for a cupboard in the east wall. A similar fireplace is located halfway along the same wall on the first floor. A blocked rectangular doorway is visible in the south wall. The roof structure may include original trusses, tie beams, and struts with double moulded shoulders. Joists between the tie beams suggest that the roof space once contained a floor. A tie beam towards the west end has a slot for a partition. The building was used as a dairy around 1954. If the interpretation of this building as having a first-floor hall is correct, it represents a rare example of the continued use of an early house plan at a later date.