Bagpath Farmhouse And Stables

Bagpath Farmhouse and attached stables date from the early to mid-17th century, with further development in the 18th century. The farmhouse is constructed of random rubble limestone with dressed quoins, and has rebuilt ashlar chimneys and a stone slate roof, with pantile to the stables. It is a two-storey building with an attic and cellar, arranged in an L-shape. The stable range extends to the east.

The north front has a full gable, offset to the right, with a large five-light casement window on the ground floor, featuring a relieving arch. Above are a two-light and a four-light casement window, and an off-centre three-light window to the attic. All casements have ovolo-moulded mullions and hoodmoulds. A blocked oval is visible in the gable apex. A doorway to the left has a hipped roof porch supported by Tuscan columns, leading to a plain doorway with a studded plank door. The stables to the left have scattered casement windows and doorways with timber lintels, including one ground-floor two-light recessed cavetto stone-mullioned casement.

The west side features two gables; the right one projects forward, both with ashlar chimneys having two rebuilt diagonal shafts with moulded caps. A central upper-floor doorway is blocked with brick and contains a 19th-century fixed light. Below is a blocked single- and two-light window. The south side has a projecting gable end wing, with a single window on the ground floor, except for two two-light chamfered mullioned cellar casements with a combining hoodmould. There is a four-light window to the ground floor, a three-light window above, and a two-light window to the attic—all ovolo-mullioned with hoodmoulds. An oval is located in the gable apex. A plank door is flanked by a two-light window above. The east-facing side of the wing has altered 20th-century fenestration, with a two-light window with a hood to the attic and a blocked oval above.

Inside, a staircase from around 1630 has slanted Ionic balusters and openwork finials to the newels. The south wing contains moulded stone fireplaces on each floor, with lozenge decoration at the moulding stops. A small upper-floor room has a cupboard with turned baluster vents in the door.