Snows Farmhouse

Snows Farmhouse, now a house, dates to the 17th century, with alterations in the early/mid 19th century and late 20th century. The house is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, and has a stone slate roof. It has a layout forming an "L" shape. Originally, there was an entry to a rear room on the inner return, later replaced by a gable entry; the original position of the staircase is not known.

The west front has two windows and includes two gabled dormers added in 1994. Below the dormers are three-light stone-mullioned casement windows with stopped drips to the first floor, and a 1994 three-light replica window and a sixteen-pane sash. Small square ashlar stacks cap each gable. The front elevation has a two-light wooden casement window to the attic, with a further dormer added in the adjacent roof slope. Below this are a 1994 sixteen-pane sash to a modified earlier opening, a two-light wooden casement, and a 16-pane sash. On the ground floor, there is a 1994 sixteen-pane sash to the left, and a similar 19th-century sash to the right. A 19th-century six-panel part-glazed door is set into the gable end, within plain reveals. Irregularities in the stonework suggest a possible later addition on the left side of the main range.

The return gable features an ashlar stack and has wooden casement windows at each level - a two-light window to the attic and a three-light window below, the latter set into reconstructed stone lintels. A single-story addition with a lean-to roof covers the projecting main range. The outer end gable, against the land slope, is plain.

Interior work was ongoing at the time of inspection in January 1994. There is a 19th-century staircase with stick balustrade. One room contains a heavy, deep-chamfered beam likely dating to the early 17th century, while a nearby room has a stopped-chamfer beam of slightly later date. This room has a 19th-century panelled door leading to a rear room with a stone-flagged floor, a chamfered ceiling beam, and a 20th-century wood bressumer fireplace with chamfered stone cheeks. A wide, early three-plank door set on a broad, worn stone threshold leads from this room to the lean-to addition, and was likely the original front entry. The first-floor rooms have chamfered beams; those in the shorter wing are earlier than the others. A 1994 staircase leads to the attic, where the long range has three bays of roof with heavy principals and two trenched purlins with cross-over tenons. The short wing contains a single truss with a halved and pegged collar.

The farmhouse is situated on the north slope of the steep-sided Tilley Brook valley and forms an important historical group with its adjacent farm buildings.