Widewath Farmhouse And Attached Farm Buildings

Widewath Farmhouse and attached farm buildings date from the late 17th century and have undergone later alterations and additions. The structure is built of coursed stone rubble, with the farmhouse being plastered and topped with a slate roof. The southeast elevation of the house features two storeys and four bays, with quoins. The first two bays have sash windows with 20 panes, while the second two bays have sash windows with 12 panes. Notably, the second bay on the ground floor has a three-light window with flat-faced mullions set in chamfered reveals, and the third bay on the first floor has a sash window with single glazing bars.

The entrance to the third bay is framed by a gabled porch with rusticated jambs, a pedimented gable with kneelers, and a cartouche inscribed "RM/1674" (Mounsey). The entrance features chamfered reveals and a half-glazed door. To the left, there is a higher barn with a gable-end stack and a cross-axial stack. The barn on the right is rough-cast and includes an elliptical-headed barn entrance with a key and a smaller adjoining entrance, as well as a pitching hole. A smaller outbuilding to the right has an elliptical-headed niche and a segmental-headed entrance with recessed reveals.

The barn to the left consists of two phases; the section next to the house has three ground floor entrances, one of which features a 20th-century domestic door, along with a winnowing door. The left phase has a small wing with an outer return outshut under a catslide roof, containing four entrances—two segmental-headed, one with a sunk triangular head, and one with a gabled canopy. There is also a first-floor entrance accessed by winding steps. The rear of the building has a gabled wing with a paired window that is partly blocked by parts of a mullioned window. The outbuildings include two outshuts under catslide roofs, one of which has paired doors. The interior, which has not been inspected, is reported to contain a 17th-century panelled partition and a court cupboard dated 1729 (provisional list).