Fell Yeat Farmhouse at Side

A small farmhouse, now a house, likely dates to the mid to later 17th century, although it may incorporate some earlier fabric. It was probably altered in the 19th century, fell into dereliction and was used as a sheephouse in the 1980s, and has been recently restored and partially rebuilt. The farmhouse is constructed of coursed mixed rubble with quoins, and has a stone slate roof. It follows a two-unit gable-entry plan, with an almost continuous full-height rear outshut.

The exterior has two storeys and two windows. Restored mullioned windows of four and two lights are set to the right, and there is an opening resembling a narrow doorway near the left end, which may have originally been a fire-window. The first floor has restored two-light windows above those at ground floor. All windows have renewed chamfered flush mullions. Square stone chimneys are at each gable; the right-hand chimney was later underbuilt with an external stack. A large square-headed doorway, offset towards the rear and with a drip-course above, is in the left gable wall. A porch to protect this doorway was under construction during an inspection in 1994, and a small one-light window is above the doorway. The right-hand gable wall has a small one-light window at first floor to the rear of the chimney. The rear (north-east) end has one three-light mullioned window on each floor; the ground floor window has a stone slate band above it and apparently originally had four lights. A recently-inserted window is at ground floor to the right, and a small square window is under the eaves.

The interior originally had a timber partition separating the outshut, which featured muntins with tongue-and-groove panelling on the ground floor (surviving only in fragmentary condition in 1988) and wattle-and-daub on plain studs at first floor. This has mostly been replaced with a 20th-century partition and staircase. However, a post mounted on a stone base approximately two metres from the gable-entry remains, along with a chamfered framing plate at first floor, which is segmentally undercut for a former doorway at its west end. The farmhouse forms a group with a nearby bank barn situated approximately 30 metres to the south.