Longthwaite Farmhouse And Adjoining Barn

Longthwaite Farmhouse and the adjoining barn date from the mid-17th century. The farmhouse features whitewashed rendered walls sitting on a boulder plinth, topped with a graduated greenslate roof and rebuilt slate chimney stacks. The barn is constructed of slate and cobble rubble. The building is two storeys high and consists of three bays, with the barn located to the left under a common roof.

A plank door is set within a 17th-century gabled stone porch that includes side seats. The windows are casement style with glazing bars, and to the left of the porch, there is a sash window with glazing bars, all set in plain reveals. The barn has front plank double doors and a rear recessed doorway, along with one 17th-century wooden mullioned window. Inside the farmhouse, the ground-floor ceilings are beamed, and there is a built-in court cupboard inscribed and dated G. & M.W. 1691, referring to Gawine and Mary Wren. This court cupboard is illustrated in Shelagh Sutton's book, "The Story of Borrowdale," published in 1974.