Smelter Farmhouse

Smelter Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1701, likely built for John Horner. It is constructed of rubble with a stone slate roof and features an irregular U-shaped plan. The building has two storeys, with three first-floor windows in the main range and a rear wing to the left, along with a shorter staircase wing to the rear right and an added single-storey lean-to connecting them. The farmhouse has quoins.

On the east front, there is a central 20th-century six-panel door set in an elaborately-moulded surround. This surround includes double cyma reversa sections at the arris, which join in stop chamfers at the base. The inner moulding forms a stepped head with "IH" and "1701" inscribed on the spandrels, and the outer moulding also has a stepped head. Above this, there is a torus pulvinated frieze and a segmental pediment. The ground floor features double-chamfered mullion windows with segmental arched heads and sunk spandrels, and the inner chamfers have an ogee section. To the left on the ground floor, there is a three-light window, and to the right, a six-light window with a central king mullion, both with hoodmoulds that extend into the doorway and terminate in paterae. Additionally, there is an oval fire window to the right. The first-floor windows include a three-light window, a single-light window with a stepped head above the door, and a four-light window with a central king mullion. The building has shaped kneelers and ashlar coping, and there are corniced ashlar stacks located between the first and second first-floor windows and at the right end.

At the rear, there is a small blocked chamfered surround in the gable of the stair turret. On the left return in the rear wing, there is a ground-floor four-light double-chamfered window with a central king mullion, where the inner chamfer is hollow, and a damaged hoodmould to the right of the window indicates a blocked doorway. The first-floor features a four-light double-chamfered mullion window. The interior has not been inspected. The name "Smelter Farmhouse" likely refers to a medieval hearth used for smelting iron ore found on the nearby hillside. This farmhouse is considered an exceptionally fine example of its type in the area and was uninhabited at the time of the resurvey.