Renshaw Farm Cottage

Renshaw Farm Cottage is a late 17th century or earlier house, that was reported renovated in 2017 and is now used as an outbuilding. It is situated in Conistone With Kilnsey, on the west side of Main Street. The building is constructed of limestone rubble with gritstone dressings and has a graduated stone slate roof.

The cottage is a 2-storey, 3-bay range, with an added bay to the left. It has quoins. The main range features a board door to the left of centre, with chamfered, quoined jambs and a large lintel; a further board door with tie-stone jambs to the left; and C19 board double doors with quoined jambs and a wooden lintel to the far right. A recessed 3-light window with chamfered mullions is positioned to the left of the left-hand door, and a round-headed chamfered window is above. A 3-light flat-faced mullion window is set to the right between the other two doors, with one mullion removed, and a square opening with a wooden lintel is above. The added bay to the left has a board door with a plain lintel to the left and an external stair leading to a board door with tie-stone jambs to the right. A stone stack with a moulded cornice is located to the left of the main range. At the rear is a small, square, blocked opening to the ground floor left, and a loading door above ground level, centrally positioned, with a sawn stone surround. The right return elevation features two blocked square openings with crudely dressed surrounds to the ground floor, with a churn stand against the wall to the right.

The ground floor of the first bay of the main range was visible during a resurvey. This includes a fireplace with well-dressed, chamfered jambs and a corbelled cambered arch against the left wall. The overmantle retains plaster decoration to ceiling height. To the left of centre is a rectangular panel with three tiers of lettering: "1697", "W S", and (possibly added later) "S" and a small raised cross in a panel far left, all beneath the ceiling beam. To the right of centre, the overmantle is filled by a moulded recessed panel displaying a 3-branched plant with paired buds and leaf-shaped finials in relief. Two lower corners have small thistle-shaped motifs. Two spine beams have cyma stops to the chamfers and the joists are fastened into the wall beams carried on corbels.

Only the doorway with quoined jambs, the remains of the left window and the round-headed first-floor window are likely to date from the late 17th century. The remaining openings probably originated from the conversion of the dwelling to farm use in the later 18th century, when the main stack was likely demolished.