Scaling Farmhouse And Adjoining Barn

This is a mid-18th century farmhouse, potentially evolving from an earlier post-medieval dwelling. The main elevation is constructed of handmade brick in stretcher bond, with dressed sandstone used for the ends and rear. The roof is tiled with clay pantiles, featuring stone ridge and gable copings and moulded kneelers. The chimney stacks on the ridge and left gable have been rebuilt.

The farmhouse has a through passage with a single bay to the left and two bays to the right. The main south elevation is two storeys high with three bays. It includes a renewed front door, flanked by windows, and two windows at the first floor level. The windows are late 19th century paired sashes within reduced openings, partially blocked with stone on the sides. All windows have hollow-chamfered sills, brick voussoirs, and painted keystones above the ground-floor openings. The third bay has a pitched roofline indicating a former attached barn, now replaced by a modern lean-to extension. The right return has a reduced ground-floor opening with a hollow-chamfered stone sill, and a seven-pane window above.

The rear north elevation features a large, 24-pane composite window on the first floor, with a large window opening below containing a 20th-century frame. A single-storey lean-to of concrete with a corrugated metal roof has been added to the ground floor, obscuring the rear end of the cross passage.

Internally, the farmhouse retains several notable original features, including wooden partitioning with an integrated window, an 18th-century staircase and banister, original first-floor floors, flagged ground flooring, stone shelving, original boarded doors, original chimney breasts, a possible bressumer above the central bay fireplace, and a variety of hearths from different dates and styles.

Deeds date the current house to 1750, but it may have grown from an earlier post-medieval dwelling, possibly a long house. Originally listed with an attached barn, evidence now suggests the third bay was always intended as part of a single dwelling, lit through gable windows.

The renewed lean-to at the front, the concrete lean-to at the rear, a single-storey cottage, and the adjoining farm outbuildings are not considered to be of special interest.

The farmhouse is significant for the survival of its external fabric and decorative detail, the preservation of many noteworthy internal features, its discernible plan form, and the overall level of intactness.