Villars Farmhouse

Villars Farmhouse is a large farmhouse, with parts believed to date back to the late 14th century and the remainder likely from the 16th century. The front was altered in the 19th century. It is constructed of rubble stone with a rough cast front on the main range, which has a stone slate roof featuring stone end stacks with offsets and rendered flues, as well as a small stone end stack on the earlier right-hand section. The main range is a single long structure with three storeys and several 20th-century extensions to the rear and side.

The main façade has three windows, which are wide three-light casements that have been altered on the first floor to include louvred glass vents inserted at the center top, all set in stone frames, with some windows featuring internal wooden shutters. The central doorway has a moulded wood surround and a six-panel door, which is fully glazed in two leaves, accompanied by a 19th-century ironwork porch with a swept bell roof.

At the rear, there is a projecting stair tower that rises three storeys, with a renewed internal stair and two small dormers on the rear. Each end stack originally had a wooden newel stair, though only part of this is now visible. The ground floor rooms feature chamfered beams, while on the first floor at the rear, there is a very small stone-framed window with a splayed reveal, which was originally barred at both the front and back and had a chute through the thickness of the wall to the sill of a lower adjacent window.

To the right, there is an older two-storey range with an attic that includes a small gabled dormer with twin casements, two two-light stone mullions on the first floor, and two three-light on the ground floor, all with square hoodmoulds and some restored stonework. The interior features a very large oak bressumer fireplace with an oak newel stair, and a bread oven that was possibly originally external but is now contained within a small lean-to extension likely from the 18th century. One ground floor room has two very large chamfered beams with single stops and original joists, along with a stone slab floor.