Armistad Farmhouse

The Armistad Farmhouse is a house dating to 1734, with surviving elements from the 17th century and mid- to late-19th century replacement windows. It is built of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, covered by a graduated stone slate roof. The house is two storeys with an attic, and has three bays with a projection of one and a half bays. It has quoins. The central entrance features a six-panel door in a plain surround with an entablature and moulded cornice, with a stone plaque bearing the letters "R A" and the date 1734 above the door. The windows are four-pane sashes in slightly projecting sawn stone surrounds. There are stone gutter brackets, shaped kneelers, moulded gable copings, and corniced end stacks. The rear elevation has a sawn stone surround to the stair window, while other windows have recessed chamfered mullions; a mullion and transom window is present to the half cellar on the left, and a two-light window is to the centre of the cellar. The right return displays lower walling of less well-dressed stone, indicating the earlier 17th-century structure, built with smaller stones. A four-pane sash window on the first floor’s right side has a 18th-century ashlar architrave, and a similar surround is visible to a smaller six-pane gable window. Inside, you'll find a narrow entrance hall with an inserted partition wall separating the hall from the living room on the left. A large fireplace has a segmental tripartite arch with joggled joints, incised to resemble voussoirs. The parlour to the front right contains a fine built-in pine cupboard with fluted pilasters, a keyed round arch to the surround, fielded panel doors, ribbed coving to the interior, and shaped shelves. The rear room on the right is a dairy with stone shelves, divided from the central stairwell by a timber partition incorporating reused 17th-century panelling. The staircase consists of three straight flights, with the lower five steps made of stone; it has knopped balusters and a moulded handrail. Window shutters and six-panel doors are also present. The first floor provides access to the attic storey on the far left. The original 17th-century house comprised two bays, with a large fireplace in the living room/kitchen on the left, an unheated parlour to the right, and a dairy beneath a rear outshut. The 1734 alterations raised the house to two full storeys with an attic and added a room to the rear left. The central doorway initially opened directly into the living room, and a fireplace was installed in the parlour – the surround is now located upstairs. The staircase, built-in cupboard, and architraves on the right return also date to this period. 19th-century alterations included partitioning the living room to create an entrance passage, replacement windows, and enlarging the doorway.