Potters Farmhouse

Potters Farmhouse is a building with traces of earlier work, principally dating to the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. It is constructed of roughly squared, coursed stone, with a stone slate roof. The farmhouse comprises a two-room main wing and a three-room cross wing, with a lean-to extending from part of the cross wing. The entrance front faces the farm buildings and features plain chamfered, stone mullioned windows generally with hoodmoulds. A doorway has a Tudor arch, sunk spandrels, a deep stone lintel, and a hoodmould. To the left is a plinth and a three-light window. The wall projects forward for a gable containing a boarded door that rises to two stone steps, with a matching surround; a further three-light window sits to the left. Further along, a three-light window is set within the lean-to, lacking a hoodmould. Above, two gabled dormers are present with three-light windows, the right-hand window possessing a hollow chamfer. The parapet gables have cross-gablet apices, with a single-light stair window below the eaves. A four-light window is situated in the cross wing, with a two-light window above leading to the attics. A parapet gable marks the right end, displaying an ashlar chimney on the ridge with moulded caps. A similar chimney is positioned behind the ridgeline to the left of the front door. The cross wing has a parapet gable with a cross-gablet apex. A gable on the left return, above the lean-to, is accompanied by a twin-flue chimney with a moulded cap.

Internally, the main wing originally featured a cross passage and a hall to the left, with a stone doorway surround, hollow chamfered window facing the rear, a wide fireplace opening with a Tudor arch, stone lintel, and double ovolo jambs, along with a small salt cupboard to the left. A spiral stair is situated to the right of the entrance. The cross wing displays scratch-moulding panelling and ceiling beams quartered by timber, with a heavy chamfer and moulded plaster cornice. A parlour is located to the left, with timber-framed internal walls and a double-boarded outer door. The stone fireplace surround, dated 1582, is said to have been moved from elsewhere, and sits beneath a heavy timber lintel. A wide chamfer is visible on the main ceiling beam, along with exposed chamfered joists. Similar chamfering is seen on joists and beams in an unheated central service room and adjacent kitchen, and on stairs leading down to a brick-vaulted cellar on the left, which is partially above ground. The roof over the vault is also visible. A 17th-century stone fireplace is found in a room above the main parlour. Queen-strut trusses support the cross wings, while the floor to the front attic was raised in the 19th century to improve headroom in the bedroom below. The main wing was reroofed in the 19th century, but retains part of a collar and king-strut truss against the chimney. Wattle and daub infill, smoke blackened on one side, could represent remains of an earlier smoke bay. The right end of the main wing was rebuilt, likely in the 18th century; at least part of the lean-to is original, with its front wall continuing the gable of the cross wing. The farmhouse originally appeared to have a higher roof.