Honeywell Farmhouse

Honeywell Farmhouse is an early 18th-century farmhouse, with later additions to the rear. The farmhouse is constructed of roughcast stone with a half-hipped thatched roof, and the left-hand gable wall is slate hung. There are two large rendered chimney stacks in the rear wall of the original house, with projecting slate courses and caps just below the top, extending further with brick shafts. The larger left-hand stack has a wide offset on the left side. An additional rendered stack with offsets and a brick shaft sits on the rear wall of the lean-to directly in front of it. The original plan comprised two rooms, with a central entrance passage containing a staircase at the rear. A two-storied lean-to is situated at the rear of the left-hand side, and a single-story former kitchen is at the rear of the right-hand side. The original kitchen was likely in the right-hand front room, later converted into a parlour in the early 19th century when a new kitchen was built behind it. At the same time, the left-hand front room, likely a parlour, was subdivided, with the left-hand end becoming a separate cottage (now incorporated back into the main house). The farmhouse has two storeys, with a garret, and a five-window front. All windows have 20th-century wood casements without glazing bars. The central bay of the ground floor features a four-panelled door in a beam-moulded frame, with flush lower panels and 20th-century glazing in the upper panels, and a cast-iron knocker. A 20th-century rendered porch with a glazed roof stands in front of the door and the window to its left. The right-hand gable has two 2-light wood casements, likely late 19th century, on each storey, and a similar window in the side wall of the lean-to; each light has 6 or 8 panes. A 2-light mullioned window with rectangular leaded panes in the upper storey is present on the left-hand side wall of the two-storied lean-to and is probably late 18th or early 19th century. Internally, the farmhouse has been altered in the 19th century, with fireplaces and other features potentially concealed beneath plaster. The entrance passage includes a two-panelled ovolo-moulded door of early 18th-century type, distinguished by a single fillet to the ovolo. An old plank door with wrought iron strap hinges, featuring spade-shaped terminals, is also present on the opposite side. The simple wooden staircase has square newels bead-moulded at each corner, and thick square-section balusters. The second storey contains several panelled doors matching that on the ground floor. Roof trusses are simple, with collars pegged to the faces of the principal rafters; there are no common rafters, only thick thatching spars.